Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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The best way to get to know the place you are traveling in is to walk around... and the best way to walk around is with comfortable shoes! Grab your travel buddy and your running shoes and go explore!
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People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'
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I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.
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I was very young, and I remember this heated, passionate argument and trying to figure out some place called Vietnam, something called a Watergate, and some guy named Gerald Ford who my dad knew who had just become president, and how all these things fit together.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are; it solely relies on how you think.
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Shortly after college, I was working in New York City at 'Rolling Stone' magazine.
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Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.
