Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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I have an amazing education through my wife on female fans and perspectives on it. Things that I never would have thought of.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.
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You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.
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In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
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Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.
