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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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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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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Lighten your palette his remark to Cézanne circa 1873, to encourage Cézanne to use bright colors, paint only with the three primary colours and their derivatives.
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Looking back on my career, some of the hardest times - eight people at a show, 12 people on a bus - were some of the most fun.
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.
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Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.
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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.
