Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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There is a way to practice hard and be physical without pads. You can still be a physical football team and be efficient in practice without pads. The 49ers practiced like that for a long period of time in the 1980s under Bill Walsh and were extremely successful when all the other teams were practicing in pads.
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Let us defend the home as a place which is second only to the temple in holiness.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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And...I think that's what life is all about, actually, about children and flowers.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.
