Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
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If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.
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We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that.
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I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.
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I play well with everybody.
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You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.
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Algunas cosas se hacen tan nuestras que las olvidamos.
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God definitely blessed me with power. I still don't know the limits of my own power.
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Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
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I feel lucky I didn't become that newspaper cartoonist I wanted to be because in the U.S. so many newspapers have suffered circulation declines, and some have folded. What's fun about being an author is I reach a much bigger audience, and there is something special about launching a book you've penned.
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Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.
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I was a schoolteacher for a while, and it was the worst job.
