Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.
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Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.
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When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.
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I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
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I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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My personal life is also cinema.
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Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that.
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Hollywood is just a bunch of middlemen, people trying to facilitate content transfer between creators and viewers.
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I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.
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I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living.
