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.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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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.
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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.
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So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.
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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.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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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.
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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.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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.
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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.
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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
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Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
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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.
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What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
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Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny.
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They’re not fat pigs; we’re mad scientists.
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I never wanted fame.
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The best gift you can give to a girl is your devotion, not some Louboutins. But buy those if you're busy, for sure.
