Top 100 Pete Wentz Quotes
#1. Let's just make it through tonight, worry about the rest later.
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#2. I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.
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#3. I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.
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#4. I think I ended up on 'People's '50 Most Beautiful People' list just because of eyeliner, which is kind of a bummer. But if you do find the right color, it will make your eyes pop.
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#5. The hardest part of watching someone watching me is making it appear that I'm not watching.
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#6. My body is a metronome, keeping time for the universe ...
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#7. But a lot of things probably will never change - like our friendships and our working relationships. As far as me and Patrick [Stump, the singer] and all of Fall Out Boy, it's in a vacuum.
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#8. I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.
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#9. I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.
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#10. I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.
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#11. I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.
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#12. It's all the same to me - a fucking red flag
emblazoned with the words DO NOT BECOME EMOTIONALLY INVOLVED WITH ME, and this bed is barely big enough for my own baggage.
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#13. Life is a deep and contemplative story stuck on repeat. love, loss, self-destruction, self-discovery
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#14. You should be able to grab people with ideas.
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#15. I remember my first kisses with a lot of people, and they're rad experiences. And you don't have to really take it to that next level because that's what keeps it exciting.
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#16. (before playing Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet) I couldn't really come up with a short way to sum up this song, but I was watching the movie 'Adaptation' the other day and this sort of sums it up in my head. You are not who loves you. You are who you love. Always remember that.
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#18. Being surrounded by six Brendons is so not fun.
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#19. The stars crossed and The Boy wished he could have hung himself on them.
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#20. I like individual scents on a girl, so you always recognize her and you keep her separate from other people in your head. I really love Egyptian musk. I've even gone to the mall and sprayed perfumes and just smelled them. I'm creepy. So creepy.
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#21. There was a fence and there was this other van- So I go, 'Fence or van? Cause I'm crashing into one of them,' and I said 'Fence,' so I hit the fence and bounced into the van
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#22. I'm not just taking trips down memory lane; I'm broken down on it.
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#23. I think hair is just, like, the most important thing about you.
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#24. When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.
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#25. Ultimately, people do want to buy merch and tickets to support their favorite bands, but they don't want to feel like it's the only thing going on.
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#26. Our brains may lie to us, but our hearts never do.
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#27. Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control.
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#28. Just a tiny red sliver remains in the battery icon. I wish humans came with the same kind of indicator ... it
would make things much easier. You would know how to deal with every person on the planet, and I'd always be in the red.
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#29. She pulls me toward her, tells me, "You're sweet, you know that?" I crack a smile. Life will not tear us apart this
time. Our hearts will see to it.
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#30. When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.
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#31. Dont let anyone tell you what you are ever- that way you never run the danger of becoming anything but what you believe in.
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#32. There's really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn't make a difference
because I'd just be running from myself, and you can't do that no matter how hard you
try, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.
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#33. Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.
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#34. These jeans looked so good on me when I looked in the mirror I wanted to fuck myself.
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#35. The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.
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#36. Life is merely a numbers game, a series of odds, and eventually we all lose. To think otherwise is foolish. But if we didn't, why would anyone ever bother getting out of bed in the morning?
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#37. There she is, lying in front of me, smoking a cigarette, thinking of something or someone else. And that's how she is stuck in my mind forever.
We are two explorers in the dark. Mapless and hopeless. Alone together.
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#38. Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead
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#39. He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers.
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#40. So id burn this whole city down just to show you the light
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#41. Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.
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#42. I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.
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#43. Somewhere I just want to find someone that's going to love me forever no matter what; I want someone to show the inside of my head to. That thought keeps me going.
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#44. I've always been a dreamer, have always believed
in the power of love and art and loud, life-affirming rock and roll, but, for the first time,
I'm starting to have doubts. Can a dream even exist in reality? Or does it turn to stone
the second it leaves your mind?
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#45. If you aren't just a little depressed, then you aren't paying very much attention to what's going on in the world.
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#46. We're sick of hearing people say, "That band is so gay," or "Those guys are fags." Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something's shitty, say it's shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes.
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#47. I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.
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#48. I think everyone should go crazy at least once in their life. I don't think you've truly lived until you've thought about killing yourself.
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#49. I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.
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#50. I would never come out and say I was gay, because I'm not gay. And there's part of me that kind of wishes I was gay, and I think that that comes from anybody who is constantly wishing they were in the minority, you know, and constantly wants to be kind of fighting everybody off, you know?
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#51. Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.
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#52. My wife can look at me in a certain way and I can tell by her eyes how she's feeling about me or when I should stop talking about something. It's kind of the way twins have their own thing.
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#53. You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.
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#54. Someone once told me that digging up the past has two sides: The pro is that you remember things you had forgotten about. Unfortunately, the con is the exact same thing. That may scare some people away, might force them to always be moving forward, never looking back, not for a second.
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#55. It wasn't me! Look at how little I am. I'm a little guy.
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#56. What are you looking at? she asks.
What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was
put on this earth to find? Yes.
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#58. It was the single best sexual encounter I've ever had. We were in the Soho Grand Hotel, and there was a mirror, and I was like, 'Oh my God, you're banging the girl of your dreams and you're watching it right now.'
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#59. Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock.
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#60. Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will,
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#61. This story never really had a point. It's just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost towns. We are old wishes that never came true. We are hand grenades (and every word you say pulls the pin). We are all gods, we are all monsters.
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#62. Don't wear eyeliner with too much facial hair. It looks strange.
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#63. There are bands that I got into when I was 15, when I was mad at my dad and just wanted to be different. I don't think I'd give those bands half a chance now. But I hold some kind of nostalgia for them that I won't let go. Bands like Minor Threat and Black Flag.
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#64. First he threw out all of his records, trashed his heart and then he went to sleep.
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#65. For the most part, I hang out in my back yard with my dog, but there's no paparazzi trying to check that out.
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#66. You're gonna meet tons of different people throughout your life, and it's totally worth it to stick your neck out a little bit if you like someone. Even when you get shot down, it seems really devastating, but it's not in the long run.
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#67. I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.
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#68. We're just like a movie based on a book
almost, but not quite as good.
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#69. I'm a bit of a tease. I'd make out with a lot of people but not go beyond that.
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#70. Sometimes its good to come back when you least expect to.
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#71. This is how your heart gets
snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.
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#72. I was a superlate bloomer, and I was kind of a prude. I always wanted to be able to keep the number of people I've had sex with very low, because I never wanted to have to tell my future wife, "Oh, yeah, I was with 30 people."
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#73. My brain has always been my enemy, and I've spent much of the past decade warring against it, with therapy and razor blades and bad behavior, with precision-guided prescriptions that targeted specific regions.
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#74. I'm not a real big fan of penises. Like my own, whenever I look at it, I just don't find anything attractive about it. I can't believe girls are into it. It blows my mind a little bit.
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#75. He felt homesick for places he had never been. He missed hearts he had never loved.
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#76. I'll be your number one with a bullet.
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#77. I was diagnosed with ADD - see also: raised on sugary cereals and cartoons - and manic depression. So I was prescribed Ritalin for the ADD, and for the manic imbalances I was prescribed mostly benzodiazepines, which I loved, and antidepressants.
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#78. I don't have an issue finding guys attractive.
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#79. There's nothing worse than watching an old wrinkly guy going, 'Hey, baby.' You're like, 'Dude, that's lame.' It's cool to fall in love and grow old with someone.
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#80. What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?
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#81. Long live the car crash hearts Cry on the couch all the poets come to life Fix me in 45
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#82. Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there
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#83. I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.
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#84. When I was in high school, my thing was to get as close as humanly possible to a girl and just make her have to kiss me! You do the hug that's too close, where your mouth is close to hers and you kinda feel it out a little bit.
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#85. My parents treat me like I'm 14. They make me clean my room and stuff like that. They're always like "I don't care what MTV says you are.".
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#86. It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.
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#88. I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is.
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#89. Turn over a new leaf, fuck it turn over the whole tree.
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#90. Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.
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#91. Here's the thing about hair; I think most people think that I have Lego hair, like I can just take it on and off in one piece, and that's not quite the case - although pretty close.
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#92. And I could write it better than you ever felt it.
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#93. Ghost towns filled with sad people who settled for what life offered them. The road unfurls before us. Everything is possible. I feel sick to my stomach.
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#94. When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it's totally okay that I'm a little bit weird because these guys are a little bit weird. It made me want to pick up an instrument and do that.
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#95. It's strange - there's a public persona of me that does nothing for me: the side of me where it's 'US Weekly,' where 12 cars sit outside my house because of who I married. That side never shuts off. I would like that to shut off sometimes, yes.
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#96. I wish I had never taken naked pictures of myself on a phone to send to a girl. It's the worst thing ever.
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#97. Underwear. It's like a god damned leash. It also constantly reminds me of how funny I look naked.
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#98. I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' then Jessica Rabbit, and finally I moved onto a real-life human being and was into Punky Brewster, and then Christina Applegate on 'Married with Children.'
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#99. The Worst part of acting like a jerk isn't when you're doing it. Its when you realize you were.
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#100. In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.
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