Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.
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I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I've found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once believed in causes too; I had my pointless points of view. And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.
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You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.
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I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
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When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.
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Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.
