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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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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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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I think some cases are different than others, but all of the child actors that I have encountered, as well as myself, are real kids. I mean we do all the things that kids do. We're normal. We just like to do different things. We like to act and make people feel happy or sad, but we're 'real' people.
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Il ne savait rien, ne voulait rien savoir, en quoi il se conformait à son génie, dont il ne surchargeait point l’aimable petitesse, et son heureux instinct lui conseillait de comprendre peu plutôt que de comprendre mal.
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Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.
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Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of “experts” who made them up in the first place.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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You can't be jealous and be a leader.
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All of the best songs happen on a whim.
