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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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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There's always a dinner to go to. There're always loads of people around. I was having fun working with my friends. For a while it all just kind of rolled together in a great way.
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I've done all this stuff because it's fun. It's never been about fame.
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I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
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I would never, ever trade any campaign donation - that's absurd - for some type of favor to anyone.
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I assume the risk of allowing my fiction to enter other people's true stories. And to be fair, I let other people's stories trespass the truth of mine.
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No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.
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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.
