Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
Spending so much time on the road, I get to fart all the time. Then when it's, like, Thanksgiving dinner and I'm sitting with my grandmother, I can't fart for, like, two hours.
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
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One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
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For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.
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The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.
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When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.
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I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.
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So they cancelled our show, and gave the time slot to Drew Carey, because he's so skinny.
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I love Taylor Swift, and I've always been such a fan of her.
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There's never gonna be a moment of truth for you While the world is watching All you need is the thing you forgotten And that's to learn to live with what you are.
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This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.
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Spending so much time on the road, I get to fart all the time. Then when it's, like, Thanksgiving dinner and I'm sitting with my grandmother, I can't fart for, like, two hours.
