Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!
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'Things that Never Cross a Man's Mind' is probably one of my favorite upbeat tempo songs because it is just a sassy song, and it's a fun song.
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People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.
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Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
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It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people.
