Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
Sometimes I stand in store windows and pretend to be a mannequin. People are like 'hey, that mannequin looks alot like thom yorke' Then I start to sing The Gloaming and lurch toward them and they run off horrified.
Quotes to Explore
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Life is too short to blend in.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.
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Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.
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The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
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I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.
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My plat de resistance is potato salad with garlic and olive oil which we press from the olives from my trees in the grounds of my home near St Remy de Provence. I have four hectares and take the olives down to the local community press at Maussane les Alpilles. I don't produce big quantities; it is just for the family and friends.
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But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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Business is where you practice your human skills. It's where you grow.
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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.
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Sometimes I stand in store windows and pretend to be a mannequin. People are like 'hey, that mannequin looks alot like thom yorke' Then I start to sing The Gloaming and lurch toward them and they run off horrified.
