Thom Yorke Quotes
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.
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I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.
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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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I was born with an evil face.
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
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I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.
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In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
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Our band has always been really big on imagery. We've kind of used that as one of our strengths; we tend to do that pretty well.
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I always wanted to act.
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And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.
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Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.
