Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade. But they've come up with some amazing drugs since then and he's doing really well today.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
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I love singing and would love to record an album at some point.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.
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The thing that means most to me is the joy that my mom and my dad got because of my career... They raised seven children on domestic wages, in a city like San Francisco, and did nothing but work, work, work.
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My dad just decided that he wanted to race sled dogs, and when he did that, he took us out of Wasilla, and we never really went back.
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I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough: Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable. Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.
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I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.
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My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade. But they've come up with some amazing drugs since then and he's doing really well today.
