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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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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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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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.
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I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.
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My dad was 32 in college, and my brother wore 32 in college. So I'm just going to stick with it.
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When a person is haughty, he distances himself from other people and thereby deprives himself of one of life’s biggest pleasures-open, joyful communication with everyone.
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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.
