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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• 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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• Faith is personal if it's to be real.

  

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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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• I used to joke that I wanted to go to the moon, but I actually do. Like, some day I think I'm going to go to the moon. That would be cool.

  

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• It's a funny thing. I'll be in my home town of Columbus at a restaurant or something, and the waiter maybe asks, 'What do you do?' and I say, 'Oh, I'm in a band... Twenty One Pilots,' and he'll say, 'Cool, I'll check it out. I never heard of them.' And then I say, 'In September we're playing the Schottenstein Center,' and it's like, 'What?!'

  

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• I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

  

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• I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I'm an everyday, normal girl.

  

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• What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive. It's really hard to do a literary reproduction of what makes you happy. That's what I try to do. If nothing else, it seems like there's enough people out there telling the world what isn't cool, or what's terrible, or what's depressing. I think there's an element of cynicism in my writing, but I'm an optimistic cynic.

  

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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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