Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
I'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.
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What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.
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The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
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My dad and I used to do movie marathons when I was a kid at the Chinese Theatre, and I just remember thinking, 'One day I want to have a movie here' And then later on, when 'Save The Last Dance' premiered there, that was definitely a full circle moment.
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There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.
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Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.
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If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work.
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Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.
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I'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.
