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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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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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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I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.
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We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something.
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I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.
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Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
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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.
