Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
You should follow your passions, you know? And you should make sure you do something you love. That's all I've learned, is that if you're doing something you love you'll work harder at it and make it happen, I can promise you that.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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Everyone learns from their experiences.
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.
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My favorite thing is to go out in the arenas, like, an hour before doors, and run the concourse. And you get that anticipation. You smell the popcorn. You see the people tapping the kegs. And nobody is in there yet but you, but you feel it. It's my favorite thing on tour.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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You should follow your passions, you know? And you should make sure you do something you love. That's all I've learned, is that if you're doing something you love you'll work harder at it and make it happen, I can promise you that.
