Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
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Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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I give the children education.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
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In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
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My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.
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I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.
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I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.
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Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet.
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Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.
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While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.
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A typical day in my writing life starts with looking at pictures of real estate online for at least 20 minutes. If I happen to be actually in the market for a house, I do this for 40 minutes. Then I walk my dog, come back home, and tell myself I can look at real estate for another five minutes.
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He was a tall man with an astonishing and somehow elegant curvature of the spine, formed by an enlarged lower abdomen, which he carried in a stately and contented way, as if it contained money and securities.
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
