Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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I want to be sublimely happy.
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I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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If you have a chance to win the game, you're going to try to go for the game.
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Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please their seller. The interest of the buyer is forgotten.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.
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Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?
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I'll drown my beliefs. To have you be in peace.
