Charlie Brooker Quotes
Online, you're trying to appeal to everyone and people who you don't know at the same time. So I think, as a side effect, it amplifies the desire for groupthink.
Quotes to Explore
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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When I came out, I found I hadn't been born with the right genes. It's quite brutal. If you're beautiful and you have the right genes, then the gay scene is a place where you can be worshipped. But if you don't, it's a different ball of wax.
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I don't go out and pick fights.
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The vampires of '30 Days of Night' never really came into discussions early on. They did later when we were trying to figure out the pathology of the 'Twilight' vampires. '30 Days' is a completely different film. If you are a kid, please ask mum and dad before you watch that one!
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I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.
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Online, you're trying to appeal to everyone and people who you don't know at the same time. So I think, as a side effect, it amplifies the desire for groupthink.
