Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun.
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There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
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It was really fun working with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz on set.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!
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I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.
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I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.
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I just kind of go with what I am feeling and don't think I have any kind of recipe for it... I mean, that's what drew me into writing. It's fun, and sometimes you don't get a great song. Sometimes you do.
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I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
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I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.
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In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.
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Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.
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We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun.
