Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.
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There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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Put it this way: singing is not my day job.
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I like girls who aren't so la-di-da. L.A. is so la-di-da.
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There is too much life to be lived for you to hit the snooze button. In fact, I believe it is 'seize the day', not 'snooze the day!'
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Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we're turned away, sent to the ghetto.
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Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.
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There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.
