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.

  

  Taya Kyle
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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.

  

  Tabitha Soren
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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.

  

  Wale
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• Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

  

  Sally Schneider
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• We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

  

  Walter Benjamin
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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'.

  

  Yang Lan
  • World
  • Art
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• Faith is personal if it's to be real.

  

  Bear Grylls
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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.

  

  Aaron Ruell
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• If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

  

  Jack Kemp
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• It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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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.

  

  Adam DeVine
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• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  

  Harry Belafonte
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• It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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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.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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• Goteborg used to be a not very cool place to live. The culture centered around shrimp and bingo. Bands played Copenhagen and Stockholm and skipped Goteborg.

  

  Jens Lekman
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• I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Job
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• When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions, rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together.

  

  Charlie Crist
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• I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.

  

  Adrianne Palicki
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• When something special happens in wrestling, it's that much more special to me and for me to go, 'That was awesome,' because I'm as bitter as there is, so if you can get me to go, 'Woah, that was cool,' a couple of times, it's a special show.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
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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.

  

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