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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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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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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I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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I'm pretty simple. I have every product in the world, but I tend to use three things: cleanser, toner, and moisturizer.
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I think there were times when I first started out, when I was covering Iraq - I was basically living there in 2003 and 2004 - that car bombs and attacks became so the norm that it was weird for me to leave and realize that no one else actually cared about what was going on there.
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I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for their first novel. Then you have to come up with something for the second novel, but you really don't have anything to say.
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I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?
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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.
