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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• 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.

  

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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
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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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• The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.

  

  Ednita Nazario
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• America has much greatness left in her.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I'm good with digital technology, but I start to miss the physical world. I miss riding my bike, talking to friends.

  

  Pranav Mistry
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• The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.

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• I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'

  

  Pat Benatar
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• I went cage diving in South Africa with Great Whites, and that was fun. Sweden was cool.

  

  Peter Uihlein
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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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