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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Usually this desire for family limitation has been laid to economic pressure... It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion.
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In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'
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Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.
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The first lesson my kids got about the ocean was to respect it. You can never turn your back on the ocean when you're dealing with tides and currents - factors beyond your control. You have to be the CEO of your family on the water. CEO stands for 'constant eyes on,' and it's something I never forget.
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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.
