David Toop Quotes

Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay

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• Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Myself
  • Trust
  • Weird

• Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • She
  • Mother

• If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • Generation
  • Listen

• I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Bad
  • History
  • Think

• Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!

  

  Said Nursi
  • Brotherhood
  • Traditions
  • Verses

• Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Words
  • Me

• I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Begin

• When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Business
  • Young
  • Show

• 'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Death
  • Man
  • Trouble

• The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Tyranny
  • Multitude

• When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Long
  • Children
  • Education

• Many people are insecure of many people.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Many
  • Insecure

• If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Past
  • Simple
  • Military

• For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Rock
  • Better
  • Same

• I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.

  

  Inbee Park
  • American
  • Golf
  • Younger

• I have to do this my way.

  

  W. Mark Felt
  • Way

• You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

  

  Harry Browne
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Miracles

• Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Passion

• Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

  

  Anthony Clifford Grayling
  • Universe
  • Wall
  • Looks

• It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Simple
  • Sound
  • Digital

• A lot of people say I got my own sound. I ain't never really got no comparisons. When people hear my music, they be like, 'He got his own lil sound.'

  

  Roddy Ricch
  • Sound
  • Own
  • Comparisons

• It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses to have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move - particularly if you're doing dressage.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Good
  • Model
  • Same

• Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Different
  • History
  • You

• Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay

  

  David Toop
  • Sound
  • Decay
  • Emergence