Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.
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I don't like the tropes, particularly in my industry, that the senior women are mean to the junior staff.
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It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
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It's depicted in comics as, like, this gung-ho, 'Let's die in battle, in glory' idea, because that's just the genre we're in. But that's not what war really is.
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I work much better in sunshine. It's drizzle and grayness that I don't like.
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He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.
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They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.
