Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
If I make a song, and it's my song, like 'Lean On,' we're going to make money off the synchs, the Spotify, and we get to headline festivals on it. That's the model I want to explore.
Quotes to Explore
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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I am not a slim person, so I regularly exercise to be healthy mentally and physically.
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.
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ArcGIS is an integrated Web GIS that is supported by services. These are abstracted in a geoinformation model that's managed by the portal, and then accessible by a number of apps, which are the growing part of this system.
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Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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Money just draws flies.
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I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.
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I take it seriously that it's a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It's not something I take lightly.
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Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
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I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.
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Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities endorsing politics, and in some cases even other causes. I wonder about their motives. And I have to admit when celebrities get involved in political campaigns I tend to get a little bit sarcastic about it.
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A healthy mind and body are essential. No excesses. Proper food. The body is like a Rolls-Royce. With care, it could last 200 years. It's a dynamo; the more you use it, the more you recharge it.
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My genes are such that I've always been relatively in shape.
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In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.
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The soul is the form of the body.
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If I make a song, and it's my song, like 'Lean On,' we're going to make money off the synchs, the Spotify, and we get to headline festivals on it. That's the model I want to explore.
