Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
I'm hoping that people should hopefully give me another chance to dream big and to deliver on those dreams.
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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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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People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.
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Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from most legitimate means of obtaining a mortgage.
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
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When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.
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What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.
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I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.
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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
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He who has gotten rid of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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I keep only a small edit in my wardrobe because I think it is important to keep things moving through, and I like to find out which pieces from my collections work and which could be reworked and improved.
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Everything you try to do in life, of any value, people are going to be saying, 'No, no, no.' You have to have the ability to not see that or hear that.
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I'm hoping that people should hopefully give me another chance to dream big and to deliver on those dreams.
