Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes

90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

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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.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • People
  • Good
  • Power

• India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • People
  • Country
  • Rich

• Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Seriously
  • Reflect

• 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.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • People
  • You
  • Me

• If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

  

  Dane Cook
  • You
  • Funny
  • Say

• My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Hell
  • Office
  • Box

• 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.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Long
  • Law
  • Fashion

• In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Revolution
  • Scenes
  • Romanticizing

• 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.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Country
  • Today
  • Loved

• 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.'

  

  La India
  • Up
  • Long
  • She

• 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.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Walking
  • Smiling

• We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Time
  • World
  • Party

• Within the horizon of this western myth, love is understood as the artificial restraining of our natural impulses toward unbridled aggression.

  

  Sam Keen

• When your back is against the wall, there's only one way to go and that's forward.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Wall

• After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Night

• There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

  

  Clint Eastwood
  • Happy
  • Marriage

• As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Lost
  • Stop

• My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Experience
  • Childhood
  • Ridicule

• Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man's knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, 'The individual withers and the world is more and more.' Man dies at 70, 80, or 90, or at some earlier age, but through his power of physical reproduction, and with the means that he has to transmit the results of effort to those who come after him, he may be said to be immortal.

  

  Willis R. Whitney
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Moments

• You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

  

  Jim Bakker
  • God
  • Alone
  • Fake

• I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Years
  • Divorce
  • Atheism

• 90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

  

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