Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
I put out this record on Ninja Tune called 'Florida' when I was about 22. And at the same time, I was DJ'ing and beginning to mix stuff up and promote shows in Philadelphia and New York and my own parties and make mixtapes, put out bootleg white labels.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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I've never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What's always driven me is being successful and being good at what I do.
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Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
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I love seeing people collaborate to make great music!
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I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.
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What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.
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If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, 'What an actress! What a faker!' That thought embarrasses me so much that I look like s**t in half my photos, and I don't give a f***. What matters to me is that the people in the room leave and say, 'She was cool. She had a good time. She was honest.'
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I put out this record on Ninja Tune called 'Florida' when I was about 22. And at the same time, I was DJ'ing and beginning to mix stuff up and promote shows in Philadelphia and New York and my own parties and make mixtapes, put out bootleg white labels.
