Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I can see things before other people do. I've always been able to do it.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.
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Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
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I think that people want to know how to do practical and everyday things like how to get the pomegranate seeds out of a pomegranate.
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I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I can see things before other people do. I've always been able to do it.
