Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.
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There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.
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Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race.
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Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
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The first song that made me interested in music was 'Oh, Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison. It was the guitar intro, that riff, that I really liked and made me listen in a different way.
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I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.
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When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.
