Charlie Brooker Quotes

All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?

Charlie Brooker

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• I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Enjoy
  • Shopping
  • Holiday

• I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Think
  • Because
  • Welcome

• In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Winning
  • Moment
  • Luck

• You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

  

  Major Owens
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Exercise

• Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Way
  • Tools
  • Depend

• I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Thinking
  • Day
  • Study

• My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Myself
  • Struggle
  • Questions

• I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Want
  • Feelings

• I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Things
  • Emotion
  • Inside

• How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Think
  • Present

• My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn't aware is a punch line.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • She
  • Mother
  • Funny

• The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Free
  • Philosophy
  • Discipline

• We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Thinking
  • Enough
  • Rebuild

• It's the reality: film is a director's medium, and, ultimately, they are the ones that are in charge, and you have to respect that because somebody has to be in charge. But, yeah, you do reach a point where you want to have your voice come out.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Reality
  • Respect
  • Voice

• I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Music
  • Know
  • Dad

• The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People

• I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Opinion
  • Rules
  • Principles

• I'm really excited about my future plans, as I'm doing things differently and currently training like a Trojan in pursuit of becoming heavyweight champion of the world.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • World
  • Future
  • Training

• Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Opportunities
  • Connections

• People often refer to bygone days as a simpler time. Perhaps, more accurately, my grandparents' generation focused better on what mattered. Traffic jams and minor quibbles with my husband Daniel pale in comparison with the worries that were faced on the home front and battlefield during the Second World War.

  

  Kristina McMorris
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Life
  • Good
  • Truth

• All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?

  

  Charlie Brooker