David Toop Quotes
Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I'm caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the world feels just out of reach for me.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.
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Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
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For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.
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I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.
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Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
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Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I'm convinced it makes all the difference in the world.
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I’ve never acted my age and I never will. It’s just the way I’ve always been.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.
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Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.
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Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
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In Greece much has been accomplished because of the common effort of all. But still much remains to be done in order to deal with our national issues, to overcome the multifaceted crisis of today, and to safeguard the place that belongs to us . . .
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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
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Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I'm caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the world feels just out of reach for me.
