Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
I don't get boy bands these days. Thye don't write their own songs and everything is choreographed from their dance moves to how they have sex with each other after the show.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
-
I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
-
Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
-
I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
-
Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
-
Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
-
Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
-
Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.
-
To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.
-
In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
-
The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.
-
If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
-
Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
-
A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
-
My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
-
I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
-
Everybody's fast and strong, but to go out there and throw pass-rush moves or be able to do something different on the run to get them off balance. Anybody can run into somebody, but if you can shake them a little bit at the line, that's what's helped me out as a player.
-
Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
-
Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.
-
The more you practise happiness, the better you get at it. So if you spend lots of time practising being depressed, you're going to get really good at being depressed. And if you spend lots of time practising being happy, you're going to get better at being happy.
-
If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely... Our patience is not unlimited.
-
Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
-
I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
-
I don't get boy bands these days. Thye don't write their own songs and everything is choreographed from their dance moves to how they have sex with each other after the show.
