Charlie Brooker Quotes
I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.
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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
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No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.
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It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.'
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If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
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Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.
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The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as it will lead to increase in cost of power generation.
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I think it's very difficult to generalize as to why, in a particular league or a particular industry, somebody has or has not come out. We certainly don't want a player to come out for our sake. It should be what's right for him and something that he has to be comfortable with.
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I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.
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One does not care for the cage when the bird has flown away from it. and when the bird of life flies away, no one cares for the body left behind.
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The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
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Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.
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I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.
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Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.
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For his the artist's life is, of necessity, full of conflicts, since two forces fight in him: the ordinary man with his justified claim for happiness, contentment, and guarantees for living on the one hand, and the ruthless creative passion on the other, which under certain conditions crushes all personal desires into the dust.
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I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.
