Charlie Brooker Quotes

It's a rum state of affairs when you feel like punching a jar of mayonnaise in the face.

Charlie Brooker

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• When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Plays

• It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Enemy
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • You
  • Sick
  • Milk

• I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Me
  • Waiting

• If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Up
  • Children
  • Hope

• As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Find
  • Come
  • Predict

• I think celebrities suck.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Suck

• When we were filming 'Twilight,' we didn't expect anything. We were just filming a movie that we wanted the fans to enjoy. And then it kinda just blew into this whole other world.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • World
  • Movie
  • Enjoy

• If you're confident, then it helps you live up to your potential, but if you believe because you went to a certain school it means you're entitled to have a particular career, you'll fall flat on your face eventually.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Up
  • First
  • Season

• A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Power
  • History
  • Influence

• The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Work
  • Done

• The first colours which made a strong impression on me were light juice green, white, crimson red, black and yellow ocher. These memories go back to the third year of my life. I saw these colours on various objects houses and roofs, in Russia which are not as clear in my mind as the colours themselves.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Black

• The thunder rolls,And the lightnin' strikes.Another love grows coldOn a sleepless night.As the storm blows onOut of control,Deep in her heartThe thunder rolls.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Night
  • Control
  • Deep

• Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Pain

• Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he is a subject to government, indeed, but that, as he has some property, he cannot himself be the property of a master.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Slavery

• I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about ballet as a little girl.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are - about luck and identity and how the idea struck them.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Identity

• So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.

  

  James Cameron
  • People
  • World
  • Present

• If someone tells you often enough you're worthless, you start to believe it.

  

  Kierston Wareing
  • Believe

• The thing people don't get about Indian films is that the songs are the story.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • People

• At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide.

  

  Jesse James Garrett
  • Work
  • Path

• It's a rum state of affairs when you feel like punching a jar of mayonnaise in the face.

  

  Charlie Brooker