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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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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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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I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
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My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.
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When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.
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My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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People who understand basketball definitely appreciate what I bring to the table.
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Men and women balance each other out, and we have to get to a point where we are comfortable with appreciating each other.
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All of the best songs happen on a whim.
