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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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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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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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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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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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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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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There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. Founders are able to set the vision for their companies with an authority no one else can.
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People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.
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The transcendent importance of love and good-will in all human relationships is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and upon society.
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I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.
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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.
