Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.
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Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
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It started when I moved into a vegetarian co-op back in the '70s, and that's really when I had my food consciousness awakened. I learned how to cook, and eventually I became the food buyer for the entire co-op. Not long after that, I went to work for a small natural food store in Austin, and I became very excited and passionate about it.
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Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.
