Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
I used the name Diplo at one show when I was really young, and it just stuck. I never meant to keep it. But it's kinda cool.
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Every single person suffers; every marriage has some major battles. Life pulls you in different directions. But if you try, and you're lucky, you can find your way back to each other.
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At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
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We completely ignore social media. Bradley Simpson also isn't on social media very much. I think we just try to live in reality as much as we can.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.
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We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was a rare sight below the waves, of a man's privacy and turmoil, of his dignity upended by the overpowering necessity of pure fantasy, pure thought, by the irreducible human element - Mind.
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I used the name Diplo at one show when I was really young, and it just stuck. I never meant to keep it. But it's kinda cool.
