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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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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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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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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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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Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.
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Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.
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Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, whether it's Islamophobia, xenophobia or homophobia. I've been trying to do things that expose and help teach and draw attention to all of the 'isms' and how we do or don't deal with them in our world.
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Every day is work for me, but it's also a party. I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
