Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
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My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
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As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, better, and more at peace. By peace, I mean the harmony you can feel in our united determination to fight these terrorists and killers.
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I will not have Botox. You know why? Because I eat! I eat the fat, I eat the vegetable, I eat everything. If you exercise and you don't eat enough, it takes its toll on the skin.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.
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Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.
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I feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.
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Sometimes I realize halfway through a story, I'm like, 'Why would anyone care about this? It's uninteresting.'
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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
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I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.
