Thom Yorke Quotes

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.

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• From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

  

  Rain
  • Action
  • Star
  • Hero

• When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Age
  • Lost

• Court proceedings, except for certain limited situations, are open to the public. This is for the protection of the accused, to be certain to ascertain that there is a fair trial.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Protection
  • Open
  • Court

• What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Help
  • Organization

• I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Past
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'

  

  Laura Osnes
  • First
  • Show
  • Wizard

• You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Important
  • Real
  • Game

• Before 'The Vampire Diaries,' I was making beats, which is how I got will.i.am's attention, and I went on tour with him.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Attention
  • Him
  • Vampire

• I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Hungry
  • Victories
  • Defeats

• I like the Kardashians, but I do keep them on the top of my prayer list.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Like
  • Prayer
  • Top

• I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart because there's so many people who unfortunately use faith for detrimental things or to justify detrimental actions.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Working
  • Films

• I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Day
  • Find

• So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Way
  • Thoughts
  • Connections

• I don't want to be alone at 80 years old, dripping in diamonds - having never helped anyone. That's not my path. That's not what I care about. That's not what excites me.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Alone
  • Path
  • Diamonds

• It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Up
  • May
  • Words

• Tension is the great integrity.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Great
  • Integrity
  • Tension

• You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Believe
  • Acting
  • Story

• I just did what I loved - flowers and rock n' roll. Pretty and punk. I was largely inspired by my dancing school classes and costumes.

  

  Betsey Johnson
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Rock

• Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'

  

  Elizabeth McGovern
  • Work

• I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Up
  • Car
  • Summer

• If you're not mentally tough, If nerves undo you instead of focus you, If you don't have the inner arrogance That you absolutely have what it takes to win, If you don't see, in your mind's eye, A picture of yourself winning - then you won't win; And not because you can't.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Mind
  • Focus
  • Winning

• Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Passion

• We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead