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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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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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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In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore. Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model.
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The thing is when I started doing standup, you had to have a clean act because that's how you got on television. There weren't all these cable shows. Also, I didn't want to have that kind of act in case my family came to see me or my kid one day.
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I don't want to be the angry guy.
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Most other schools train no-gi part time, or maybe even half the time. We train no-gi all the time.
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Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.
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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.
