Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
The first song I sent over was Up All Night. People say that sounds like Angels on a Blink record. Well, no - that's just me!
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.
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Jerusalem is not just a beautiful city: the challenge is to show that Jerusalem can be shared in peace and respect.
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When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.
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I've always loved glasses. Always have. I've worn glasses since I was in the fifth grade.
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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
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That song ["Money to Burn"] is me being a fly on the wall in situations in LA. I mean, I've seen the way a lot of people operate and I've seen that sort of thing go down. There's a lot of rich kids with a little bit of extra money.
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Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.
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I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don't take themselves too seriously.
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The first song I sent over was Up All Night. People say that sounds like Angels on a Blink record. Well, no - that's just me!
