Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
The best gift you can give to a girl is your devotion, not some Louboutins. But buy those if you're busy, for sure.Diplo
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
Mae Jemison -
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
Nancy Pelosi -
So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.
Francesca Annis -
I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
Aaron Peirsol -
I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
Barry Jenkins -
I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
Maggie Grace
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
Damian Marley -
Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
Yair Lapid -
The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
Naveen Jain -
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton -
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
Laura Mvula -
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
Wally Lamb
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
Patricia Riggen -
Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
Saint Basil -
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
Daniel Boone -
Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
Adam Cohen -
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Manfred Eigen
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I remember making my own dog food and feeling very fulfilled by it, then by day four I was over it.
Chrissy Teigen -
One of my ongoing projects is to expand third-eye technology whereby two people can watch two different things on a screen or type in two different languages on the same surface - all they have to do is wear a pair of hi-tech glass spectacles.
Pranav Mistry -
I can't say that I knocked on every door, but the few that I did didn't respond the way I wanted them to, so I think it was kind of disenchanting enough for me to go back to being subterranean.
Jason Falkner -
Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.
Elizabeth Missing Sewell -
Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
Adam Duritz Matt Malley -
The best gift you can give to a girl is your devotion, not some Louboutins. But buy those if you're busy, for sure.
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