Charlie Brooker Quotes

Short of finding a place on the witness protection programme, you don't get many opportunities to completely reinvent your life. Going to university changes that. Away from home, away from parents, away from anyone who remembers you from school, you can pretend to be far cooler and more experienced than you are.

Charlie Brooker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 3, 1971

Topics

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How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be brought to bear, habitually and steadily, in counteracting the fatal tendency of the government to the absolute and despotic control of the numerical majority?

John C. Calhoun

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But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times.

John Abizaid

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I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.

Jeff Zucker

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There is this myth, that America is a melting pot, but what happens in assimilation is that we end up deliberately choosing the American things - hot dogs and apple pie - and ignoring the Chinese offerings.

Amy Tan

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I am always interested in designing things that have a great price point attached to it.

Tory Burch

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Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.

Roy Ayers

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Ever since college, I have been a libertarian - socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility.

Michael Shermer

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All the books I've read, I've read at the right moment.

Miriam Toews

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A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

Moby

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I love horror movies, obviously; otherwise, I wouldn't make them.

Jason Blum

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When you look at the government, when the government collects a buck, it's not free. They have to spend resources, the IRS, audits, all this sort of crap, to collect the dollar. I'm not assuming any Laffer curve effect here at all. There are just transactions costs of collecting that money.

Arthur Laffer

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I don't want to be known as the Aerosmith chick, but it's fun to put on the boots and makeup and act like a tough girl.

Alicia Silverstone

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