Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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In terms of style I typically veer toward a certain masculinity. My style inspirations range from images of my father in his 1970s suits, to Tilda Swinton, to Hugh Hefner, to Sharon Stone and her ferocious sexuality, to handsome men I see on the streets of New York.
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.
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I never denied being a fool. That's the difference between us.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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It has never been in my power to study anything, - mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic.
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The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs.
