Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!
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So, I get a kick out of working with the media.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
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Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.
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I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
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Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
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We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
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All this is very good in theory, but in practice, you take a piece of iron, wind a wire around it, then plug the wire in. The core gets hot, the wires smoke, and the fuse blows. So you see, there are practical limitations to theory.
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One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
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Sometimes I wish I was one of those artists like David Bowie. They're not putting their private lives out there; it's about show and entertainment. But an alter ego is very dangerous for me. Because I am the guy who will become lost in that.
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If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!
