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.Diplo
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But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
Waylon Jennings -
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!
Kabir Bedi -
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.
Rachael Taylor -
I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
Vikram Seth -
Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
Garry Shandling -
I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
Ferdinand Mount
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
Daniel Barenboim -
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
F. H. Bradley -
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.
Nathan Wolfe -
Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
Raghuram Rajan -
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.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
Usain Bolt
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Not every artist is a role model.
Iggy Azalea -
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.
Jack Ramsay -
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.
Natalie MacMaster -
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.
Iris Apfel -
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.
Barbara De Angelis -
I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
Beck
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That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.
Daniel Okrent -
When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.
Ashton Eaton -
I haven't shut up, I think, since I was born. I tend to talk a lot, and I sing constantly, and I know that it can be kind of annoying, but I would say I sound a lot like my mom.
Ashley McBryde -
The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all rely on you. Being a leader is a 24-hour-a-day job.
Jon Oringer -
We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
Laura Esquivel -
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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