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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I've met Nicole Kidman, Elton John, loads of people.
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I love, love, love Charlotte Olympia shoes, but who doesn't?
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Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
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When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?
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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.
