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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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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I don't think of fashion as fashion or biology as biology.
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After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and the process of making a dress, I developed a respect for the patience and skill it takes to design these dresses.
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I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
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I don't want to say names, but there are certain companies I won't work with because of previous people they've worked with. I don't want to be put in the same category as another athlete that I don't necessarily think is a good role model.
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Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.
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People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere.
