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

• Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Pride
  • Common
  • Failing

• With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Reproach
  • Disordered
  • Burning Skin

• I knew my own mother had been in the theater for a while and had taught children, because she used to teach me the pieces that she taught them, but she did much more than that.

  

  Eve Arden
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Teach

• Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Kids
  • Past
  • Know

• I'm at work by 8 or 8:30, and when I get home every night, my wife and I walk around the lawn. We have dinner together, and then we spend most of our evenings alone.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Work
  • Home
  • Together

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

  

  Charlie Brooker