Thom Yorke Quotes

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.

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• I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.

  

  Bar Paly
  • Women
  • Movie
  • Beautiful

• What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Love
  • Characters
  • Films

• I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Up
  • Work
  • Home

• The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • Find
  • First

• An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.

  

  Indira Varma
  • She
  • Actor
  • Emotions

• The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Heart

• Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Die

• I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not. You must  be laughing at me for feeling you are laughing at me  if you are not laughing at me.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Feeling

• But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool Is but in folly stable.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • May
  • Fear
  • Faith

• Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Important

• I don't feel that this concept of disruptive technology is the solution for everybody. But I think it's very important for innovators to understand what we've learned about established companies' motivation to target obvious profitable markets - and about their inability to find emerging ones. The evidence is just overwhelming.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Important
  • Technology
  • motivation

• You know you are an artist if you appreciate beauty.

  

  Brandon Stanton

• As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Up
  • Long
  • Mind

• You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • American

• Ever since we started, we've been trying to give people music that is pop music where you could just get into the melody and get into the performance of the band and be quite satisfied.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Live
  • True

• Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.

  

  Elvis Stojko

• There must be a seed of every good thing in the character of men, otherwise no one can bring it out. Lacking that, analogous motives, honor, etc., are substituted. Parents are in the habit of looking out for the inclinations, for the talents and dexterity, perhaps for the disposition of their children, and not at all for their heart or character.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Good
  • Men
  • Children

• Every day, do something selfless for someone else that takes under five minutes. The essence of this thing you do should be that it makes a big difference to the person receiving the gift. Usually these favors take the form of an introduction, reference, feedback, or broadcast on social media. Do something that's not for yourself, every single day. Expect nothing in return. Over time, these random acts of kindness will really add up.

  

  Adam Rifkin
  • Kindness
  • Return
  • Selfless

• One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Sacrifice
  • Sin
  • Bitter

• A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

  

  Marshall Field
  • Opportunity
  • Control
  • Exercise

• It's kind of the period of your career where as a fighter, you need some sort of validation from time to time. I mean, winning matches and going off to the next one, without really having any direction, it's fun, but it's good to have a period where you can say "Ok, I won a title. Ok, I got picked up by a big organization." So every step in there is important.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • Career
  • Organization
  • Direction

• We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead