I tried to be all intellectual and erudite and with others I'd just swear and curse and be … - Charlie Brooker

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I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

Charlie Brooker

I tried to be all intellectual and erudite and with others I'd just swear and curse and be an idiot. And suddenly, when they're all in one space, I don't know who I am.

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Women - why aren't you running the world yet? Frankly I'm disappointed in you. Men are still far too dominant for their own good, and consequently we've made a testosterone-sodden pig's ear of just about everything: politics, the economy, religion, the environment. . . you name it, it's in a gigantic man-wrought mess.

Dominant, Gigantic, Men, Pigs, Politics, Running

When you look at things like social media, that's an immensely powerful tool that I'm all in favor of. I think it's amazing. It's a powerful tool, and it's one that we're, as a species, still grappling with learning to use. It's like we've grown an extra tail and we inadvertently lash out and knock over all of the furniture.

Powerful, Thinking, Media, Grappling, Knock

The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.

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I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

Actually, Cases, Scenarios, Technology, Worrier, Worst Case Scenario

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.

Earnest, Moral, People, Sarcastic, Thinking

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Changing the structure and rules of the global economy will require a mass movement based on messages of compassion, justice, and equality, as well as collaborative and democratic processes. . . If we stay positive, inclusive, and democratic, we have a truly historic opportunity to build a global movement for social justice.

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Mark Cuban

To retire by the age of 35 was my goal. I wasn't sure how I was going to get there though. I knew I would end up owning my own business someday, so I figured my challenge was to learn as much as anyone about all businesses. I believed that every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry. I spent as much time as I could, learning and reading everything about business I could get my hands on. I used to go into the library for hours and hours reading business books and magazines.

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Davy Crockett

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.

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Stuart J. Russell

When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.

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