Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes

We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.

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• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Live
  • Country
  • America

• He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
  • Power
  • Courage

• This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.

  

  Flume
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • English

• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Actor
  • Singer
  • Juggle

• The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Important
  • Water
  • Serious

• I had an apartment on Long Beach Blvd and San Vicente in Long Beach, California. That was the apartment I done 'Regulate' in. I had all my equipment set up in the bedroom, a vocal booth in the bathroom and in the closet, and that's where we created it. I had an MPC 60, a Numark mixer, and a Technics 1200, and a ton of records.

  

  Warren G
  • Up
  • Long
  • Done

• I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Process

• I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Wall
  • New York

• That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Positive

• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Why
  • She
  • Bad

• A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • May
  • You

• The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Together

• 'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Trying
  • May
  • Nature

• The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Water
  • Sound

• My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Parents
  • Learn
  • Grades

• I've got a serious-looking head.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Serious
  • Head
  • Got

• A lot of times when people meet me, theyll definitely try to make me feel young or inexperienced. Like, Its all taken care of. Teenagers are such a discerning group of people. Theyll immediately sniff out anything that feels contrived. Im, like, constantly scanning myself to see if Im some corporate executive version of a teenager. Ive developed something of a fearsome reputation. People know that if you talk down to me, I will roll my eyes or whatever.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Taken

• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Small

• In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Work
  • Win
  • Hard Work

• I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Book
  • Write
  • Publishing

• We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.

  

  Tom DeLonge Box Car Racer
  • Write
  • Sense
  • Pray