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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Boston was incredible. I had some of the best experiences of my life there at Berklee because I met a bunch of other people who were at the exact same stage in life and interest as me. There were American and international students all wrapped up in the Berklee environment, where you basically did nothing but music 24/7.
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For those of us who want to accomplish something for the country, we need to come up with a list ... of anti-spending reforms which are locked into place so we are dramatically lowering the appetite of the federal government over the future.
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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
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I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.
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I had a nice life. It had its challenges like anybody's life, I guess.
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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.
