Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
I do a lot of collaborations and productions, whether it's Switch or Steve Aoki or No ID or Will Smith or No Doubt - I always like to collaborate and be a quality control person for the people 'cause I have my own taste in music and bring that to other peoples' brands and help them learn a little bit.
Quotes to Explore
-
Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
-
It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
-
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
-
When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
-
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
-
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-
The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
-
Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
-
I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
-
I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
-
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
-
Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
-
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
-
When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
-
I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
-
Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
-
The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.
-
I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
-
I grew up with reggae music.
-
She is a beautiful creature, but beauty doesn't equal good and it certainly doesn't equal sane.
-
Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.
-
The United States of America has helped underwrite the global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms. The service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform has promoted peace and prosperity from Germany to Korea and enabled democracy to take hold in places like the Balkans.
-
We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?
-
I do a lot of collaborations and productions, whether it's Switch or Steve Aoki or No ID or Will Smith or No Doubt - I always like to collaborate and be a quality control person for the people 'cause I have my own taste in music and bring that to other peoples' brands and help them learn a little bit.
