Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
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When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
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I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.
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It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
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My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
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My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.
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Becoming a mother has turned my world upside down, but in a really good way - it's the best.
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My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead she had eight children.
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The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally.
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Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.
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Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?
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When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.
