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Charlie Brooker is a British broadcaster, born on March 3, 1971. Known for his unique sense of humor and insightful commentary on modern society, Brooker has made significant achievements in television, online media, and publishing.

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Famous Charlie Brooker Quotes

“Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.”

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“In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised games, and lots of people you'd like to remove from the genepool with a cricket bat.”

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Book:Dawn of the Dumb

Source: Dawn of the Dumb

“Technology is a global thing and wherever you go, people are prodding the same devices and worrying in the same way and have had their lives slightly altered in the same way.”

People Way Technology Worry Devices Altered

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“Seriously, if I switched on the TV and they were showing live footage of an army of fire-breathing pterodactyls machine-gunning people to death on the streets of London right outside my door, I'd be horrified, but not entirely surprised, nor any more scared than I already am. I'd probably just shrug and wait for them to smash the door down. We're so screwed, I don't even know what to worry about first.”

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“I'm more pro-technology than people probably realize.”

People Realizing Technology

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“While I was thinking about that, the military, I read a book called On Killing, about the obstacles people have to pulling the trigger in combat. So sometimes you just absorb all this stuff without realizing you were doing research.”

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“I think more and more people became aware that social media was starting to feel like a more toxic space. And, I mean - quite a lot of incidents of people getting very, very angry about all kinds of things and attacking people.”

People Thinking Feels Kind Mean Social Space Media Angry Starting Social Media All Kinds Toxic Attacking Incidents

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“Most writers or performers walk around with the notion in their head that - a paranoid worry that maybe people don't like them.”

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“I think people are starting to look away and questioning, and they're sort of horrified.”

People Thinking Looks Starting Questioning

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“Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak.”

People Technology Weak Villain

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“What are people going to expect when they sit down to watch a new episode of Black Mirror? And what you're going to expect is somebody with a translucent TV in a drone strike and a robot walking by... or frowning at a phone and going 'aaah! Oh no! I've just deleted my own leg!' or whatever. So I thought well, let's not do that.”

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“People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with.”

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“I'm not some anti-technology person. I think it's often how people would assume that if they don't know me.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Technology Assuming Know Me

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“In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.”

People Knows Writing Might Comedy Backgrounds Britain Know Me Comedy Writing

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“"Proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so.”

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“Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.”

People Firsts Dream Reality Sand Disturbing Rams

Book:The Hell of it All

Source: The Hell of it All

“Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.”

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“One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.”

People Feels Enough Pain Benefits Empathy Clusters

Book:I Can Make You Hate

Source: I Can Make You Hate

“When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.”

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About the Author

Born: March 3, 1971
Known for: Broadcaster
Quotes: 117

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