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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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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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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For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.
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I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.
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Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings who live full and satisfying lives, but to have siblings and not make the most of that resource is squandering one of the greatest interpersonal resources you'll ever have.
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I'm an only child, and I can take all the attention you manage to pile on me.
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People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere.
