Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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When 'You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling' hit, we were doing a show called 'Shindig!' and the Righteous Brothers suddenly became big business.
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I've gone down several paths. I started school as an engineer, but underneath it all, I knew I wanted to use instruments, not build them.
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In darkness God's truth shines most clear.
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Most people learn all about the Second World War in school, or else, they see so many films put out by Hollywood, that it's easy to think we know exactly what happened.
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I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.
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It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people.
