Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I can only control what I can control.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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I literally touched down in Kosovo and the president, prime minister and mayor were waiting for me to get off the plane. Apparently that's unheard of. They don't wait for nobody.
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Always remember this. Television, fame, money - listen, here is a news flash for America. Fame cannot remove your sin. And all of the money you ever amass cannot raise you from the dead.
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Don't expect things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the people you are photographing. Don't be concerned about money.
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Your biggest fear is the transition from football to business. You feel inferior at the beginning. You don't have the knowledge to compete. But once you start focusing and understanding, then you start relating to things.
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Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
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Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.
