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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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
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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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Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
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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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I was an avid tomboy, and as long as I could ride my bike just as fast, hit the ball just as hard, and catch just as many garter snakes, I was accepted as one of the boys and enjoyed all the perks of superiority.
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A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things.
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I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
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I'm hoping that people should hopefully give me another chance to dream big and to deliver on those dreams.
