Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite.
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I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting - a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up.
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I like to think Portland and L.A. are not rivals; they're cousins. As cities on the West Coast, they're distinct in their own way but still culturally similar.
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I thought, "If I could bring these characters [Wonder Boys] to life and lead the audience to react the same way I did, this could be a really special picture." Then I read Michael's [Chabon] novel and got even more enthusiastic about it.
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You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
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Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.
