Thom Yorke Quotes

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

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• I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.

  

  Wayne McGregor
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• The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.

  

  Rand Paul
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• It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

  

  Val Kilmer
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• In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.

  

  Federica Montseny
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• If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
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• The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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• The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.

  

  Ada Yonath
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• Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

  

  Hank Ketcham
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• You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
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• I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• The roar of the crowd when you come out for a final is like nothing else: when 15,000 people are cheering you, a lot of adrenaline goes right through you.

  

  Adam Peaty
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• Marriage is socialism among two people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• The Dutch are a very practical people.

  

  Famke Janssen
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• Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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• The more one presupposes that his own power will suffice him to realize what he desires the more practical is that desire. When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• I swear I want to be a food model.

  

  Amy Sedaris
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• In 1991, only two years into the Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice suddenly left her powerful job as the top Russia expert on the National Security Council and went back to California - to get a life.

  

  Elaine Sciolino
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• Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.

  

  Benjamin Earl King
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• The relationship between you and your boss will change over time. When you just started out, that boss was your mentor and took you under their wing. As a seasoned employee, though, you no longer need your boss to guide you along. You should be able to handle tasks on your own.

  

  John Rampton
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• Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
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