Charlie Brooker Quotes
What I disliked most about working as a shop assistant wasn't the occasional snooty customer or the shop or the hours, but the way people reacted when I told them I was a shop assistant - their automatic assumption that I didn't enjoy it.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Write a million words before thinking about getting published.
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Progress, this great heresy of decay.
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Stop with the stupid messages. I don't need a message that says, 'Go on, you can do it today.' What does that mean?!
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If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.
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Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.
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What I disliked most about working as a shop assistant wasn't the occasional snooty customer or the shop or the hours, but the way people reacted when I told them I was a shop assistant - their automatic assumption that I didn't enjoy it.
