Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.
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I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
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I'm a very proud actor.
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People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.
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I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
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I lived with Ilana Glazer of 'Broad City.' She was my roommate for a year and a half. I was living with her just as she was creating and filming 'Broad City.' Both of us, and a lot of my friends, come from the Upright Citizens Brigade theater either in New York or L.A.
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I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
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Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
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Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.
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I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.
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Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.
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We got guys who can score. Everybody knows guys can score.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
