Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
You’ve got to not only love yourself for who you are with all your mistakes, but you’ve got to love the world for what it can bring you if you have the right attitude.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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When I first lived in a model apartment... It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, 'You're making all the girls fat.' They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.
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I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
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Love will not just heal your life or mine. Love will heal the world.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.
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You’ve got to not only love yourself for who you are with all your mistakes, but you’ve got to love the world for what it can bring you if you have the right attitude.
