Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.

Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day

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• I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

  

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• I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!

  

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• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

  

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• In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

  

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• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

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• If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

  

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• I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.

  

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• I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.

  

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• In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

  

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• I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

  

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• I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.

  

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• I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

  

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• If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

  

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• Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

  

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• Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

  

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• I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.

  

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• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

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• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

  

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• The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

  

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• Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.

  

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• Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

  

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• I think actors are meant to have crises of faith; I think it's part of the job. I think it makes you a stronger person and a stronger actor.

  

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• Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.

  

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