Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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My father is an amazing person.
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Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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I'm not that great of an actor, so I can't, like, completely become somebody else.
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There are days when I will be like, 'Oh my goodness, I am not happy with the way I look because I cannot fit into any of my clothes.' So I eat quinoa that week, and then I feel good.
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Customers want high-quality food, good service, and good store experience, and most retailers fail to deliver on those.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
