Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
You know, it's never easy to understand why I do what I do. For other people, I mean.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.
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As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
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Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.
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Let's give a big cuddly shout-out to Pat Healy, infant provocateur and amateur journalist at The New York Times. Keep it up, Pat - one day perhaps you'll learn something about how Broadway works, and maybe even understand it.
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I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
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You know, it's never easy to understand why I do what I do. For other people, I mean.
