Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
I think escape is sort of like coming to a show with ten thousand other people and responding to that moment. Sharing that moment - that's escape.
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New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.
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I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.
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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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A lot of people want to discredit me.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional sophistication. But what's so exciting about John is that he never had any of that training on musical theory; something just spoke to him, and he just knew what sounded right.
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I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.
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You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the queue for the whole day.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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What I really see myself doing is late-night TV. No woman has ever done it.
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Love has many faces.
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I think escape is sort of like coming to a show with ten thousand other people and responding to that moment. Sharing that moment - that's escape.
