Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes

I'm sick of being known as the sexy guy that writes great songs.

Tom DeLonge Angels & Airwaves

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• I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Drama
  • Artists
  • Dramatic

• It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

  

  Sally Watson
  • School
  • History
  • Teach

• The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Black
  • Reading

• I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'

  

  Sage Stallone
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • School
  • Home
  • Friends

• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Together
  • Ending

• A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • True
  • Girl
  • Mean

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • New
  • Everything
  • New York

• The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Law
  • Stop

• I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • School
  • Think
  • You

• I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Father
  • Compassion

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Writing
  • Study
  • Speech

• For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Opinion
  • Alien

• You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Believe
  • Better
  • Red

• There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Mom

• Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • Nature
  • Alone

• It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Experience

• The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Pain

• Israel is the second Silicon Valley, and it is therefore the only other place we have chosen to expand our activities.

  

  Michael Moritz
  • Economy
  • Activity
  • Valley

• I'm sick of being known as the sexy guy that writes great songs.

  

  Tom DeLonge Angels & Airwaves
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Sexy