Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.
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As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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Birth was the death of him.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
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I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and they got college degrees studying with female professors. Both of those factors make the enterprise of educating yourself for a serious profession seem feasible.
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There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.
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It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.
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If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old.
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If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.
