David Toop Quotes
The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.
Quotes to Explore
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.
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I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.
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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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We all have our place in this diverse Spain.
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In 1994, when I came to PepsiCo, there were really three businesses. They were soft drinks, which included both bottling and the concentrate company. There were salted snacks - Frito Lay. And restaurants where we had, we all talk of them, Pizza Hut, KFC and a whole bunch of casual dining chains.
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I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
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I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.
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My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.
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Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.
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I think I've always been much better at responding kind of reasonably appropriately to whatever is required.
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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When I first watched 'Coraline,' I thought, 'If that ever got adapted...' If it was done by real actors, I think that would be a really fun thing to do, just because it's a kind of whole new universe.
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In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.
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Jody Houser, who writes Mother Panic, has this noir-ish superhero style. She's very adaptable.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.
