Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
You can do anything you want. And you can be anything you want. And you can feel anything you want. But there's only one thing you need to do, and that is: have the slightest vision to see it. Because if you can't see it happening, then it will never happen.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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Mimicking the intricacies of the human brain, a neuro-inspired computer would work in a fashion similar to the way neurons and synapses communicate. It could potentially learn or develop memory.
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Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it's important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.
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Keep your head up and be patient.
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Install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.
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You can do anything you want. And you can be anything you want. And you can feel anything you want. But there's only one thing you need to do, and that is: have the slightest vision to see it. Because if you can't see it happening, then it will never happen.
