Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes

My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician

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• I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Couple
  • Said
  • Pilots

• What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
  • Love
  • Need

• I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Care
  • Deepest

• I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Work
  • Woman

• The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Lying

• I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Human

• I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Runner

• The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.

  

  Yuna
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Best

• Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Audience
  • See
  • Blue

• I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-back. With 'Set It Off,' that was a little different from 'The Negotiator' and 'The Italian Job.' So for me, it's all about challenge. It's all about challenge and about just learning.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Different
  • Love
  • Job

• I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Trying
  • Funny

• A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Done

• Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Book
  • Model
  • Dog

• I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!

  

  W. Mark Felt
  • Never
  • Information
  • Anyone

• 'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Song

• Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Child
  • Leave
  • Behind

• Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Money
  • Want
  • Management

• I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Job
  • Power

• They're ( police ) trying to flex their muscles and say the law's still vibrant.

  

  Alan Young
  • Trying
  • Law
  • Police

• The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

  

  James Fallows
  • World
  • Father

• Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Great
  • Music
  • Today

• I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Religion
  • Politics
  • Literature

• The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists - or ever existed, or ever will exist - is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Different
  • Important
  • Government

• My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Father
  • Musician
  • Cry