Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun.
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I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.
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Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.
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Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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I like to think I was just lucky. I didn't think I was better than anybody else, but I could sing everybody's songs.
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A win is a win, regardless of how you look at it.
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An impressive thing about India is the way in which it has almost as many Muslim citizens, who live with greater prospects of peace and prosperity, as does Pakistan. This comity and integration is one of the many targets of the suicide killers, and it is another reason why firm, warm solidarity with India is the most pressing need of the present hour.
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I casually advise a few young companies, and I'm always surprised when I see them overthinking simple problems, adding too much structure too early, and trying to get formal too soon. Start-ups should embrace their scrappiness, not rush to toss it aside.
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You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun.
