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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I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
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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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Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.
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We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you are thinking about and create characters who feel like they could live - at least for me, that's the way I want to write.
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I live a pretty domestic and normal life. I make my kids breakfast most mornings, but nothing too elaborate - soft-boiled eggs and oatmeal.
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The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.
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Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?
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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.
