Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play "ventriloquist", only I wasn't wearing pants.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.
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It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.
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But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.
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My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play "ventriloquist", only I wasn't wearing pants.
