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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
Sally Schneider
-
We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
-
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Mahatma Gandhi
-
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
Walter Benjamin
-
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
-
Faith is personal if it's to be real.
Bear Grylls
-
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
-
If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
Jack Kemp
-
It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
Wanda Sykes
-
I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
Mahesh Babu
-
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
-
You can cage the singer but not the song.
Harry Belafonte
-
It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
Yvonne Strahovski
-
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
-
Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.
Ian Hacking
-
Because the stores worked, franchisees wanted to build more stores. If your model works, folks who are happy with it will buy out the ones who aren't happy.
Fred DeLuca
-
I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
Karin Slaughter
-
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes
-
Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?
Boris Becker
-
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.
Diplo