Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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I just love playing in major championships.
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The guys have told me not to quit my day job.
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I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
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Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I've pulled through everything and I've not become bitter about it.
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How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.
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My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
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I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.
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I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.
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I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!
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For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.
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The fame thing doesn't really worry me. There's nothing I like better than getting up on stage and playing in front of several thousand people. The fact that the other guys get all the limelight doesn't bother me at all.
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Moonlight is very honest and very special to me. I feel like this is the most personal music I've made, by far. I'm very proud of it and I'm very excited. It's scary...it's vulnerable and kind of terrifying.
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We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?
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The Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
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We're immature guys playing pranks on people, having fun.
