David Toop Quotes

The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.

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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.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Career

• 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.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Different
  • Want
  • Person

• 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.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Feminist
  • Saying

• No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Shine

• Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Interesting
  • Alone
  • Behavior

• Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Always
  • Emotions
  • Weather

• I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Kind

• If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Up
  • Great
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Life
  • Work
  • Freedom

• Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Real
  • Character
  • Tree

• We all have our place in this diverse Spain.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Place
  • Diverse
  • Spain

• 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.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Company
  • Three
  • Pizza

• I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Energy
  • Action
  • Ideas

• I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in college stay up late at night, at 2 A.M., just to get the lighting right, and I thought, 'You know what, if that's what it's going to be like, I think I'm just going to write,' and I did that.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Up
  • Night
  • College

• I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Name
  • Absolute
  • Residence

• When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?'

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Children
  • Help
  • Helping

• 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.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Business
  • Decision
  • Artist

• Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • God
  • Infinite
  • Zero

• Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.

  

  William Barclay
  • Done
  • Prayer

• I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Issues
  • Bother

• The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.

  

  David Toop
  • Meaning
  • Longer
  • Confront