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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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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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'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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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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Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.
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One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
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Men treat men differently than they would a woman.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'The Caretaker' is funny up to a point. Beyond that, it ceases to be funny, and it was because of that point that I wrote it.
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You know, in China, they say, come on over, we'll build the plant for you. Of course, then they steal your patents, but the reality is that they are aggressively trying to take our jobs. Every other country is. They know that to have a middle class, you have to make things.
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One of the things I've realised is that I am very simple. My wife asked me once if I loved her. I said: 'Look love, I'm a simple man. I love you. End of story.' But I guess you gotta keep saying it with women. I guess she needed reassurance.
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There was a point when I thought I would primarily be a writer, but the acting seems to have got in the way. So when I do get a chance, I jump at it.
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I feel like I am in turbo mode as a student of entertainment.
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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.
