Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.
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My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
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I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.
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When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.
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It's amazing how kind everyone is here in the U.S.
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I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with freedom and still mix up the pace, mix up the spins and everything like that. That's what I want to be doing, because you get into that very one-dimensional kind of tennis if you don't work on slicing and coming into the net.
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One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge.
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Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.
