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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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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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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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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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My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.
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Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.
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Sometimes I say in France: Europe is no more the center of the world - and the United States, neither. We have other key players on the international stage: China, of course; but also Brazil, India and South Africa. And their influence is very, very strong.
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I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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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.
