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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The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
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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'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.
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If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.
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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.
