Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.
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Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
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That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.
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I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.
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Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.
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The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.
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We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.
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Being innovative these days is sometimes having the lack of ego or guts to imitate something. Heck, in the newspaper industry, plagiarism is grounds for firing. In the NFL, you get a raise for doing that.
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There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.
