Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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The United States does not provide economic support funds to the Palestinian Authority to build new homes for terrorists or fund President Abbas' anti-Israel campaign trips through Europe.
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Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
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If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.
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There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.
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Shock 'n' Awe. We bring the BoomWow.13
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Because I came into acting late, my references come from real life. That's my biggest inspiration. It's probably the reason I moved back to New York. I'm just a lot more inspired by real life than I am by depictions of real life.
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I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the case.
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Every day is work for me, but it's also a party. I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
