Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.
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Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
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I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
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To lead people walk behind them.
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The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.
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A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.
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For me to be able to reach out to other people throughout all this has been great, people want to hear from me and hear my music right now so it keeps me happy. I cherish every moment. I have a different perspective on everything now. In the end, I think it will make me a better person.
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Becoming chronically ill has definitely given me a greater understanding of human nature, and I've learned to accept people's lack of long-term compassion for others while they live their busy lives.
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Oprah is just this goddess presiding over so much of American life, and her story is really interesting - the way she made herself, and the ruthlessness it took, and also the fantasizing that it took.
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Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.
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Every record I have done was because I was a person's friend. The only time we did not continue to be friends was if the record did not become a hit. If it did, we became great friends.
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People are different when they're 30 than they are when they're 16.
