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 always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
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I could write a joke song really easily, but I think something that might be true for my generation is that there's a certain irony or detachedness expected of us, even though we really feel sincere. So the only way to sincerity is through a joke.
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Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.
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Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater. When the world is fucked, you go to the theater, you go to the shine, and when the bad men come, all there is left to do is sing them down.
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So I am saying to you, whoever is reading this book, to remember: never ever give up. You can survive and make your dreams come true.
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
