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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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
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I've always felt like an artistic person. I can't draw or paint or sculpt. I never really had technical skills, but I've always felt like I appreciate really beautiful things, and part of taking a good photograph is being able to recognize beauty.
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Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from jagged bits filched from deranged brains.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week.
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It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people.
