Atoms for Peace Quotes
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My heart is a weatherballoon caught in an updraft of a chinese tax percentage, the tax percentages are unequivocaaaaaaaaaal, Unequivocaaaaaaaaal. This is the sort of lyrics you could never think of, loser. Here's a razorblade go cut yourself
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Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers
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You cannot kickstart a dead horse
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My name may be Thom Yorke, but only I can call me Thom Yorke.
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I'd go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can't fill because I don't understand what this is. It's like you're given a job that's beyond you. And it's taken me years to realize what works in those big situations.
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Every Christmas people are so nice to me, they think I am Little Tim from A Christmas Story. But I'm not. *smiles*
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The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change
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Your fantasies are unlikely. But beautiful.
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I got into the music business thinking it was really radical, that it wasn't really a business at all, that it was a lot of people being artistic and creative. Not true, and it made me very depressed.
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I won't live in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. I'm sorry I just won't do it.
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The thing I remember most about America is that it's silly. That can be quite a relief at times.
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The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.
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Someone once asked me how the universe was created, I told him it all began with Pablo Honey
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I love listening to music with my mate. We don't do it often, but when we do we'll just sit there and lose our heads in it. Sooner or later he'll start saying something to the effect of "Hey, Thom, can you put in something else now?" but I'll just nod coldly and respond "not just yet". But after awhile, I'll finally budge. And that's when I crack a big smile and take out The Bends and put in Kid A. My friend just sighs and leaves the room, and I can't blame him. He's not ready for that leap yet.
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Technology is killing us. We think it's helping us but it's killing us. Don't ask me why because I don't have the time or the attention span to complete that thought. Now let's all hold hands and draw spider monkeys.
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I'm actually an athiest. That's kind of deep you must admit.
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My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.
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At the KFC there's, lot of black people there innit *laughs*
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I don't eat food, I Thom Yorke it. What's the difference? When normal people "eat" food, they first chew it with their "teeth" until it's small enough to go through their "esophagus" and then be broken down in their "stomach" and absorbed. When I Thom Yorke food, I chew it with my Thom Yorkes until it's small enough to go through my Yorke tube. It's then broken down in my Thomach, where if I eat too much sweets, I get a mean Thommy ache! But it's okay because Jonny's usually there to rub the pain out.
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If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.
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I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.
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I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this out that, maybe, I'm not so perfect as is the affront I oft put on. After all, the lyric is 'I wish I was special'. I truly just want to be loved and accepted, I think, like all humans.
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And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.
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Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound of a fat man's thighs rubbing together as he approaches another lardy male for a night of sexual deviance.