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.
J. G. Ballard -
I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
T. C. Boyle -
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.
Oscar Pistorius -
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.
Caitlin Moran -
I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
Harland Williams -
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W. H. Auden
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
Madeleine Albright -
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.
D. A. Pennebaker -
I'm a very proud actor.
F. Murray Abraham -
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.
Samuel L. Jackson -
I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.
Kate Micucci -
I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
Canelo Alvarez
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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?
Queen Latifah -
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.
Rachel Bloom -
I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
Barbara Lee -
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
Ogden Nash -
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
Walter Cronkite -
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.
Sam Kean
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The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.
Candace Bushnell -
The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller.
Scott Adams -
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.
Ezra Furman -
All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
Tamara Tunie -
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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