Charlie Brooker Quotes

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• My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.

  

  Gary McCord
  • School
  • High
  • Magic

• Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Fail
  • Could
  • Expense

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story. The franchise of 'Lost' is not characters sitting on a beach.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Change
  • Lost
  • Story

• I can't stand on a podium and beat my chest saying I'm the best. I just think I've been the luckiest of all. Yes, I'm talented. The movies that I've chosen and the way they've fared have also helped. I've always done films I would love to watch. I have stayed away from films which I thought were depressing.

  

  Kajol
  • Way
  • Best
  • Talented

• When I get real excited, my muscles go into spasm, so they just shake.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Real
  • Just
  • Go

• My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Priority

• I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Long
  • Soul

• Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Ocean

• I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Want
  • Acting
  • Start

• I'm doing a program with NAFME for music and education in schools, and for a week, we will be getting in a bus and traveling across the United States. We're starting at Disney World and ending at the Grand OIe Opry. We will be performing at different schools, and I wrote a song for the program called 'Always Sing.'

  

  RaeLynn
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• Don't fight forces, use them.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Fight
  • Use
  • Forces

• It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Hate

• The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.

  

  Bruce Springsteen
  • Remember
  • Hand
  • Mirror

• I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Believe
  • Past

• John Parsons: Don’t you think such a theory, such a radical theory, is anti-social?

  

  Margaret Sanger

• Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Done

• It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Nature

• MOTHERS! / Can you afford to have a large family? / Do you want any more children? / If not, why do you have them? / DO NOT KILL, / DO NOT TAKE LIFE / BUT PREVENT / Safe, Harmless Information can be obtained of trained nurses at / 46 AMBOY STREET.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Dialogue
  • Destroys

• You go to Miami, and you might only hear one Tyga song on the radio. You go to L.A., and you might hear six or seven on the radio. There's certain things you do for your city.

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • Song
  • City

• The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Health
  • Happiness
  • Follies

• There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ... Others desire to learn that they may morally instruct others, that is love. And, lastly, there are some who wish to learn that they may be themselves edified; and that is prudence.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Desire
  • Reason
  • Learn

• Apple excels at taking existing concepts - computers, MP3 players, conceit - and carefully streamlining them into glistening ergonomic chunks of concentrated aspiration.

  

  Charlie Brooker