Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

When all else fails...be a rockstar

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• I don't want to be size zero and I'm glad I'm not.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Want
  • Size
  • Zero

• I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

  

  Christy Romano
  • Music

• The interesting thing is that when you start out, people have no judgment and they see you young and fresh as a filmmaker - and because you have no experience yet, you're much more naive and think anything is possible.

  

  Marc Forster
  • People
  • Experience
  • Interesting

• The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.

  

  Charles Williams
  • Done
  • History
  • Church

• In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

  

  Marquis de Sade

• I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling.

  

  Elle Macpherson
  • Up
  • America
  • Holiday

• The Blossoms were actually the first black background singers that did recording sessions in California, but we had to start giving work away. We just couldn't do it all.

  

  Darlene Love
  • Work
  • Black
  • Giving

• Big, big movies are in 3D, but we haven't reached a point yet where that's just what a movie is.

  

  Colin Trevorrow
  • Movie

• When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Character
  • Emotional
  • Connection

• We make programming decisions on a day-to-day basis. We sell advertising on a day-to-day basis. This is the way networks operate. This is the way all television stations operate. This is the way most businesses operate when you have a number of affiliates or a number of franchises. It's the way the business operates.

  

  Mark E. Hyman
  • Business

• We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

  

  George Best
  • Football

• I believed in Santa Claus until I was 12!

  

  Danielle de Niese

• A man can be aroused to anger as easily as he is aroused to rut. The two emotions are closely linked. Anger and lust. So the warrior is aroused in battle and fights to dominate.

  

  David Gemmell
  • Warrior
  • Lust

• A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.

  

  Anatoly Rybakov
  • People
  • Heart

• Certainly there is no way to direct the effects of monetary policy at a single class of assets while leaving other financial markets and the broader economy untouched. One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Single
  • Brain
  • Financial

• Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Fails
  • Nails
  • Scratch

• Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Standards
  • Awful
  • Rock Star

• Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation on the highest plane. If a better way than the books is found we should use it.

  

  Melvil Dewey
  • Inspiration
  • Should
  • Found

• When all else fails...be a rockstar

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Fails
  • Rock Star