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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I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
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What we also know is we haven't found them weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - now let the survey group complete its work and give us the report... They will not report that there was no threat from Saddam, I don't believe.
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I trust microphones, speakers and recordings less and less, and no longer buy into the idea that I can recreate at home, or in my earphones, the experience of hearing live acoustic instruments. The orchestra is already a set of speakers that react differently to each player, each room and each concert - it's that high level of uncertainly and unrepeatability that I like. The music is just soaked into the walls of a room straight from the instruments - and it's a one-off deal. The alternative - left speaker, right speaker - is kind of a compromise.
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Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experiences, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions craving, which conditions clinging, which conditions becoming, which conditions birth, which conditions aging and death.
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The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.
