Thom Yorke Quotes
I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
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Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'
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This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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I don't want to rip away the security that people finally have; 18 million people now have healthcare; preexisting conditions are no longer a bar.
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Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.
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My friendship with the great actor and director Alan Rickman did not have a particularly auspicious start.
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I love my religion, I love everything about it, but at the same time, I love my career, and I want to do it with the same love and compassion.
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Chicago was a big influence on all three of us growing up. I admire their musical integrity. When the opportunity came up to produce them, I couldn't let it go by.
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I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
