Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.
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The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.
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In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
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There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
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I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.
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Watching Madonna puffing on a cigar on David Letterman's show, I thought, 'Gosh, she's feeling so India! All she needs is long, black hair and a trip to the Caribbean to burn her skin up.'
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When you're in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you'd look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.
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We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.
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Within the horizon of this western myth, love is understood as the artificial restraining of our natural impulses toward unbridled aggression.
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When your back is against the wall, there's only one way to go and that's forward.
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After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.
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There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
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As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.
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I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.
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Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I'll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk about $150,000 in us. He was close to bankruptcy a lot of the time, and Atlantic kept telling him we didn't have a chance.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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The happiest person in the world has struggled. And none of us are perfect. And people can judge. There's so much judgment going on. And I just don't think that's what God's about.
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Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.
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90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.
