Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
It's cool to play the guitar, but to me it's even cooler to scratch a guitar backward and forward, to manipulate it with a turntable. Guitars can't do that themselves.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools to build a global immune system.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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Not every artist is a role model.
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I had a sense when I took the job that the 1976-77 Trail Blazers could be very good. We had made a lot of positive roster changes, but it wasn't until I had the team in training camp that I realized that this team could be special. Midway through that season, I felt we had a chance to win it all.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
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I won't speak for the entertainment industry. I speak for Disney. I've seen people in the industry come to work every morning paranoid about what the other person or other company is doing. That means you're spending time and focus on somebody else's business instead of your own.
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My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.
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I think my parents were surprisingly cool with me entering the arts. Although, I think they thought it was going to be a phase, and they didn't expect me to actually stick with it, and rightfully so. They were concerned whether I could afford groceries, being an actor.
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It's crazy to see all the fans, and it's cool to see them all support each other - it all feels like one big family.
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I did get in a few fights in school. Kids threw around anti-Semitic slurs, not knowing necessarily what they meant. It was probably just something they picked up somewhere, as kids do.
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It's cool to play the guitar, but to me it's even cooler to scratch a guitar backward and forward, to manipulate it with a turntable. Guitars can't do that themselves.
