Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
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If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for 'deep truths' that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.
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I think that at a certain point in our lives we should have to interview our parents.
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There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
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We play a beat for 15, 20 seconds and know if we want to get on it. When we record a verse, it's no more than 15, 20 minutes. We don't have a pen and paper. We bounce off each other.
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All of the best songs happen on a whim.
