Thom Yorke Quotes
'The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs.' source
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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I don't read the critics.
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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
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My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.
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I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.
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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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We knew we were going to do a fashion line at some point.
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
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Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life, it is important.
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One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled 'fog'...The motorist replies: 'What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog.'
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You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.
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Maybe I don't have an accurate view of myself. For instance, I keep getting cast as 'The Beautiful Girl,' but I don't happen to think I'm beautiful.
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I was a no-good bastard.
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I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.
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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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'The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs.' source
