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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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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I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.
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When you have a little one, you realize that your only mission in life is to protect this helpless, very sensitive creature. That is your charge. That's primal. I relate to that deeply.
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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.
