Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere.
 
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	I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.   
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	I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.   
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	If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.   
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	Accept loss forever.   
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	Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.   
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	To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.   
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	Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.   
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	I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.   
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	The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.   
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	My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.   
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	With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.   
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	Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.   
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	Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.   
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	It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.   
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	I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.   
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	The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.   
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	I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.   
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	You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.   
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	You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'   
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	The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.   
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	My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.   
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	People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					