Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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President Obama has contempt for real money.
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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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As we enter 2015, we are faced with overwhelming challenges. However, the dawn of 2015 also promises unlimited potential and the opportunity to begin rebuilding America.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
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I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.
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It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.
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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.
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Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
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America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
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I've stepped back a few times and had these crazy epiphanies that we are blessed by having Barack Obama as a candidate at this time in our history. If we were ever to have a man of color become president - and it shouldn't be about that, and it doesn't need to be, because he's qualified on all levels - but if you do think about it, just in terms of that idea of unifying people, it's a huge positive.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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My biggest surprise when I became a mom was how I had so much love inside me to give to someone.
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Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.
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In ten years I will become president of the United States Of America.
