Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything - rap records - it's very pop-sounding; there are really boy-band-sounding records.
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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
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The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.
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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
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One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.
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Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards.
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Everything is a risk in Pakistan: If you defend women, it's a risk. If you defend non-Muslims it's a risk. If you discuss religion, it's a risk. But you can't really sit there like a vegetable in your own society. And I'm committed to that society... and I feel I need to turn around and speak as I should.
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K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything - rap records - it's very pop-sounding; there are really boy-band-sounding records.
