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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I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.
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Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
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I'm just a product of the '90s, to be honest.
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I've made a life and career as a professional musician.
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Sometimes I wish that Anna Wintour didn't know I existed.
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When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.
