Daft Quotes

• Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble. Why should not God have come to the earth as an earth-worm? There are a great many more worms than men, and they do a great deal more good.

  T. H. White

  Believe, Humble, Animal

  T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.30, University of Texas Press

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• I remember seeing the full Daft Punk pyramid show in 2007. I went alone, drove up in my Honda Fit, bought a ticket off a scalper for $150, got on the floor, and had the best time of my life. I didn't have a drink, no drugs. But I was high out of my mind. It changed my life.

  Skrillex

  Pyramids, Drug, Mind

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 28, 2012.

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• When you’re in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you’d look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.

  Victoria Beckham

  Looks, Littles, Paparazzi

  "Victoria Beckham, Working Girl". Interview with Sarah Lyall, www.nytimes.com. August 22, 2013.

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• We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators.

  Stephen Fry

  Hero, Air, Valhalla

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• As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing, but you're constantly fighting the distractions to write as well.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Fighting, Games

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.

  Tiesto

  Sound Quality, Doe, Lucky

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• At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'

  John Lennon

  Music, Divorce, Thinking

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• We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.

  John Lennon

  Music, Believe, Order

  "The Beatles". Book by Hunter Davies, 1968.

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• This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye.

  Dylan Thomas

  Girl, Eye, Smoking

  Song: If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love

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• Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.

  Dylan Thomas

  Horse, Sunday, Past

  Dylan Thomas, Ellen Raskin (2003). “A Child's Christmas in Wales”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as mermaids, and arise cranky and haggard from their fantasies. They are moody and neglectful and all of them a little daft. Moreover they are inclined to drink too much.

  John D. Voelker

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

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• Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.

  Dylan Thomas

  Reading, Cat, Bags

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• I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.

  Mark E. Smith

  Book, Strange, Sometimes

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• It’s always this thing where we’re constantly waiting for something that will come in electronic music that says, ‘Daft Punk sucks!’ That’s actually much more interesting and exciting than someone who is paying homage.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Interesting, Waiting, Punk

  "Daft Punk Talk 'Random Access Memories,' EDM Scene in GQ" by Emily Zemler, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 07, 2013.

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• The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

  Nicholas Royle

  Writing, Ideas, Poetry

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• I knew lots of Irish ladies in my life who would say daft things and then would just say something incredibly truthful in a very simple way with simple language - a few well chosen words that would take an intellectual five minutes to express. I like that.

  Steve Coogan

  Simple, Intellectual, Way

  "Steve Coogan Doesn’t Believe In Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• Many people think if you say "no" you just do this to negotiate a better deal, and they didn't understand that Daft Punk really meant "no" because they didn't want to do certain things.

  Pedro Winter

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Some people started to call me "the King of No" because with Daft Punk we were saying "no" to everything.

  Pedro Winter

  Kings, People, Saying No

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• At the time, in 1996, an electronic band signing with a major label was something new, at least in France. Daft Punk knew that this meant a marathon of promotion, TV appearances, etc. To protect themselves and to be discrete, they came up with the masks and, three years later, the robot helmets.

  Pedro Winter

  Years, Labels, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of the rebellion and freedom of the 70s and the consumer culture of the 80s.

  Pedro Winter

  Generations, Culture, Rebellion

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I want something, I want it now, and Daft Punk taught me to be more patient.

  Pedro Winter

  Want Something, Taught, Patient

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.

  Harriet Walter

  Silly, People, Tease

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Shanks was the father figure but Roger Hunt was something special. It might sound daft but just picking up his sweaty kit gave me satisfaction.

  Phil Thompson

  Father, Special, Sound

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• I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?

  Henry Rollins

  Two, Track, Guy

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• Daft as a brush? I'm daft, but I'm not daft as a brush!

  Paul Gascoigne

  Brushes

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