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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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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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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I was rather hopeless at school, but the one subject I seemed to be good at was domestic science.
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You can't live in Orange County and train in Thousand Oaks. OK? you just can't. Not with the hours we put in. We have to be on time.
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Waste not your time on broad sketches in color.
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I'm a very laboured writer. I hammer it out sentence by sentence, and it takes a long time. That's what the work is, right? To make the reader think it is not hard to do.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.
