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.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Job
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Spiritual
  • Brave
  • Honest

• 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.

  

  Gary Speed
  • People
  • Player
  • Golf

• The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Work Hard

• 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.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Death
  • Night

• 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.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Heart
  • Jesus
  • Name

• I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Thought
  • Security
  • Sexuality

• 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.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• Midi is my hobby.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Hobby

• Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Light
  • Learning
  • Bible

• I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Theory

• 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.

  

  Karla Souza
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Worried

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Today
  • Sex

• 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.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Gold
  • Trade
  • Self-Sufficient

• When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

  

  Imelda May
  • Sun
  • Mad
  • Heard

• Birth was the death of him.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Him

• 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?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Women

• My pregame music includes a nice little mixture. Probably a little Counting Crows, maybe some Avicii. Taylor Swift.

  

  Jared Goff
  • Music
  • Nice

• Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

  

  Minnie Pearl
  • Funny
  • Water
  • Humor

• So live, that when thy summons comes to join, The innumerable caravan which moves, To that mysterious realm where each shall take, His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged by his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed, By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch, About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Moving

• I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • I Believe
  • Charities

• 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.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Dream
  • Artist
  • Ability