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 more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.
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The bottom line is that the president made it clear we're in it for the long haul.
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Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.
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What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to affect the next generation, and the next generation, and the next. Choice never affects just one person alone. It goes on and on and the effect goes out into geography and history. You are part of history and your choices become part of history.
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The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.
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In ten years I will become president of the United States Of America.
