Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
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Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
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You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
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We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.
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Katie Otto goes after stuff she doesn't feel is right, and she stands up for it. I do that too, just kind of in a slightly kinder way because I'm from the South.
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I believe that when the collective, as a whole, when people as a whole realize that we are everywhere, that we are your children and we are your mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters, that we have been with you and among you and we are you, we have been this whole time, that that’s the moment when the myths and the bullying and the inequality will end.
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No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
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My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.
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You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.
