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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I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
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I believe in women. I believe in myself. I believe in my body.
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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All disruption starts with introspection.
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So these are the kind of things that now when people are trying to move towards multiracial congregations that they're stressing. They're talking about these scriptures that say we ought to come together, and that at Pentecost, when that the Holy Spirit is said to have come upon the first Christians, they were given the ability to speak in different languages, and so that no matter who the people were, they could all worship together.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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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!
