Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
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Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.
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Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
