Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels
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People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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If you look at my career path, I was a human rights and refugees officer for the United Nations. I helped research a book for Lloyd Axworthy. I've worked in coffee shops. I've sold clothes. I've hosted TV shows, and now I'm acting.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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Superior and inferior wage one hundred battles a day.
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Restoring a person's ability to achieve success when they leave the prison walls promotes public safety, builds our economy and, most importantly, is the right thing to do.
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For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.
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It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.
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I was sick and tired of reading other people's epigraphs. They all seemed to be in ancient Greek, middle French or, when they were translated, they never seemed to relate to the book at hand. Basically, they seemed to be there just to baffle you and to impress you with how smart the writer is.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American.
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Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels
