David Toop Quotes
Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.
Quotes to Explore
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
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This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I grew up in the Seattle suburbs - the suburbs of suburbs. Where I'm from, it's super quiet, just woods and nothing.
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You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought.
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I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.
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It is sometimes difficult to avoid the impression that there is a sort of foreknowledge of the coming series of events.
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I want my world to be fun. No parents, no rules, no nothing. Like, no one can stop me. No one can stop me.
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The fact that people put on 'Honey, I'm Good' to get their day started - that's really sweet.
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I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.
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There's no such thing as a favorite investment. But I think I tend to invest in Asia in promising countries, in equities, in real estate, and I own precious metals, obviously.
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It's so cool though when I see thirty-year-old men that are coming in to watch my shows. It's like, 'You really like my music? Like a teenage girl, you relate to it?' It just proves how much people are alike.
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With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions.
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You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.
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My love is not water in a bucket, you know. It's not as if someone else can drink it all up and leave none left for you.
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I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan.
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To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.
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When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.
