Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
Everyone else but me surfs. I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore. I'll get hurt and die. But if I die, I'll sell more records. We're thinking of doing that. Actually dying.
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.
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You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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The bad boys get all the best lines.
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Yet it depends on yours. The two are one. They are a plural, a right and left, a pair, Two parallels that meet if only in
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'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'
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His thoughts were blown and scattered like leaves;He thought of the pail . . . Why, then, was it forgotten?Because he would not need it?
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Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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Everyone else but me surfs. I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore. I'll get hurt and die. But if I die, I'll sell more records. We're thinking of doing that. Actually dying.
