Charlie Brooker Quotes
Youth fare aside, I have generally always been interested in what's going on culturally.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts of new friends.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
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It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.
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The odds of having films made which star women... Everyone still references one movie: 'Bridesmaids!'
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We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.
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I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to think is happening, then there's the reality underneath it.
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Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
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And I have known the eyes already, known them all - The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,Then how should I beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
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Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.
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We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.
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My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.
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We continue to advise that investors remain committed to a patient, long-term outlook and that the best way to do well in stocks is to use a disciplined, time-tested strategy that has the benefit of empirically tested results over a variety of market environments.
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The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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Youth fare aside, I have generally always been interested in what's going on culturally.
