Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes

I used to be a record collector. Mark Ronson, Questlove and I used to be part of, like, a record-trading crew.

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• In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Character
  • History
  • Death

• The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Like
  • Person
  • Smart

• My greatest regret is selling my company.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Company
  • Regret
  • Greatest

• I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Republic

• I'm painfully middle class.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Class
  • Middle
  • Middle-class

• I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Style
  • Teacher
  • Destroy

• After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Training
  • Inspiration
  • Jewelry

• The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Coach
  • Quarterback
  • Swagger

• Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Success
  • Words

• I would love to play a superhero. I sometimes walk around thinking, 'If I were a superhero, what would my superpower be?'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Thinking
  • Play
  • Superhero

• If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Team
  • Stand
  • Naked

• In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Parents
  • College
  • Training

• I had worked in Hindi films like 'Jaago,' 'Abra Ka Dabra,' 'Koi Mil Gaya,' but 'Desamuduru' was a different experience.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Like

• Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Wrong
  • Side
  • Apology

• I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Long
  • Women
  • Hair

• Fredo Lampe. Am Rande Der Nacht. For me, name and title evoked those lighted windows from which you cannot tear your gaze. You are convinced that, behind them, somebody whom you have forgotten has been awaiting your return for years, or else that there is no longer anybody there. Only a lamp, left burning in the empty room.

  

  Patrick Modiano

• Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him. Never, ever stop going back to Him. Repent often. Cry to Allah. And hold on tight-with your life-to His remembrance and to prayer. If you do this, you may get wet, but insha Allah never drown in this ocean of dunya.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • Up
  • May

• I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Together
  • Black
  • Light

• I sold my soul to the open road, I live my life alone.

  

  Jeremy McKinnon A Day to Remember
  • Life

• When you nourish your body with pure energy, you transform from the inside out.

  

  Bill Phillips
  • Transform
  • Nourish
  • Pure Energy

• I used to be a record collector. Mark Ronson, Questlove and I used to be part of, like, a record-trading crew.

  

  Diplo