Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
As a youngster, I lived in Philly for 12 years, and I would go up to New York to do shows and make money - it was the dream to maybe be able to survive there and live there.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as banning beef has reduced beef consumption, banning alcohol will lead to reduced alcohol consumption. But, there appears to be little or no correlation between, say, domestic violence or household impoverishment and prohibition.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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Politics is far more complicated than physics.
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I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.
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You just feel like you're doing a job that you want to be doing, and then one day, somebody asks you a question like that: 'What's it like to be famous?' It doesn't really mean anything. The only difference is some people stop you and ask you for photographs.
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I've developed this routine at home. I wait for the kids to go to bed; then my wife falls asleep. Then, it's dark and quiet enough for me to work on songs.
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As a youngster, I lived in Philly for 12 years, and I would go up to New York to do shows and make money - it was the dream to maybe be able to survive there and live there.
