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.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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I'm painfully middle class.
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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.
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
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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.
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The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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I would love to play a superhero. I sometimes walk around thinking, 'If I were a superhero, what would my superpower be?'
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If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked.
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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.
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I had worked in Hindi films like 'Jaago,' 'Abra Ka Dabra,' 'Koi Mil Gaya,' but 'Desamuduru' was a different experience.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.
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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.
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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.
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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will take unto other living creatures; as it is seen in the Turks, cruel people, who, nevertheless, are kind to beasts, and give alms to dogs and birds.
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The best time to do something is when it can be done.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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I used to be a record collector. Mark Ronson, Questlove and I used to be part of, like, a record-trading crew.
