Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes

I've been working hard on a new song, it's titled "Frozen Piggy Pudding". It's about how the government is full of pigs who eat pudding all day. Oh look a frisbee, allo' govna.

Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace

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• The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Government

• I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Song
  • Single
  • Kid

• Our rights come from God, not the government.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • God
  • Government
  • Come

• One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Government
  • Purpose
  • Worst

• Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Government
  • Conflict

• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Earth
  • Government

• Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • May
  • Government
  • Efficiency

• I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • American
  • Government
  • Cloud

• There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Song

• To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Song
  • Me
  • Soothing

• From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Song
  • Moments
  • Learn

• The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Bad
  • Party
  • Government

• In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • May
  • Home

• People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Frozen

• Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • People
  • Government
  • Rich

• When I first start writing a song, I usually write the title first, then the song, and I'll sing the song in my head and think of a visual of the song. If I can't think of a visual behind the song, I'll throw the song away.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Start

• I think Valentine's Day is one of those holidays like New Year's where people develop such high expectations that even if it's a decent day, it doesn't live up, and it's disappointing.

  

  Brett Young
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• As an actor, you'll have ten parts in 2015 - eight of them will go to the other actors above you and two of them you might be close to, and you try to make them as good as you can.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Good
  • Actors
  • Parts

• I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Great
  • Me

• They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Write
  • Prefaces
  • Charlatan

• One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.

  

  Sargent Shriver
  • Trying
  • Problem
  • Littles

• I've been working hard on a new song, it's titled "Frozen Piggy Pudding". It's about how the government is full of pigs who eat pudding all day. Oh look a frisbee, allo' govna.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Song
  • Government
  • Frozen