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 have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.
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A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.
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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
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I was just burnt out. I didn't like the music business and I didn't like me. There's an element of falseness about the whole thing. Even things like doing an interview. It's not as though we just met in the pub and are having a chat - it's part of a process. If you do it all day, every day for years, you end up thinking: 'Who the hell am I?' I was lucky enough to make some money, enough to let me kick back. It was a great experience and it was nice to have a couple of No.1s but the best thing about it was that the money I made allowed me to have freedom and choice in my life.
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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.
