Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
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I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.
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The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
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Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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The good ideas will survive.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
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But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!
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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
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It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.
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My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
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You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.
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Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*.
