Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
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I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
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Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
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My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.
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I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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I think it's important to be diverse, and I hope we continue to see that as a trend in the fashion industry.
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.
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What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
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America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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To fight evil is to fight ourselves.
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It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!
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If you can sell yourself as someone who knows how Washington works, someone who has these relationships, that's a very marketable commodity. If you're seen as someone who knows how this town works, someone who is a usual suspect in this town, you can dine out for years - that's why no one leaves.
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No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.
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In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.
