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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I wish we were smart enough that, every time we had an idea for a script, that it was great right off the bat.
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It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.
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School is very important to my family.
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My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.
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The assumption that the egoless condition, or union of self and God, is man's final goal and ultimate destiny is a great mistake. My purpose here is to affirm that the unitive state is a hidden path in itself, a movement in its own right that ultimately leads to no-self (no true-self and no-union). In short, the unitive state is the hidden path to no-self.
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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.
