Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
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I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.
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I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.
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I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.
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I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.
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I have been fighting the best. I am just 26 and have fought in the biggest arenas.
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Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
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A ton of kids at school have made fun of me; if I had to give advice to other girls, I would say, 'Hang loose and ignore them. They shouldn't faze you no matter how popular they think they are.'
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I didn't get interested in education until I had kids.
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The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
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Customers are now driven by trying to optimize value.
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If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.
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I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.
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From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.
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In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog's job will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the dog bites him.
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That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
