Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant.
Quotes to Explore
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Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.
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We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
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Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.
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Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.
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Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
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Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.
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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
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I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.
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McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
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I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
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At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian.
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Buddhism, with its non-theistic framework, grounds its ethics, not on the notion of obedience, but on that of harmony.
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It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.
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One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me.
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That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.
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I've always wanted to be older, as I think it's all right to be a little bit odd when you're out of your 20s.
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When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant.
