Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
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I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.
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I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.
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One of the most important things the United States did in the aftermath of World War II was to help returning veterans with housing. In 1945, in my home state of Oregon, we established the Veterans Home Loan Program, which for over 60 years has provided more than 300,000 loans. This has changed the lives of Oregon veterans and revitalized communities.
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An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
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Network TV is so limiting. There are so many parameters.
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Sometimes it feels like I've been in the business forever, but then other times, it feels like kind of a flash. Growing up, all I wanted to do was sing. All I wanted to do was get on a bus and ride around the country and sing for people and be a household name.
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We love food. After our studio session, we devour dal makhani, butter chicken, and butter naan.
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I've always had an eclectic taste in music. But what I try to do is combine these things in ways that others would never think of, like putting Bun B on an Elton John song.
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I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, and I've always said I want to get things done.
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You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.
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I'm asked that a lot: 'James, is there really a continuing spiritual renaissance occurring on this planet? Look at all the conflict, look at the wars.' And I believe, yes, we're still moving toward a deeper spirituality. It's personal. It's grassroots. It's everybody trying to get their own connection made, and from there it grows out.
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Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
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I'd love to collaborate with Drake. I think he's awesome.
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The team came together. We're looking forward to the next race.
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I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.
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Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.
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If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.
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Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
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I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
