Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.

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• What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

  

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• When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

  

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• I always do my interviews face to face.

  

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• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

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• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

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• I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.

  

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• Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.

  

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• The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.

  

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• When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Good
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• Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

  

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• Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.

  

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• This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.

  

  Dana Carvey
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• The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Different
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• A bad system will beat a good person every time.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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• Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

  

  Kate Smith
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• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

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• I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

  

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• I have so many mentors. I'm really lucky to be surrounded by incredible mentors, whether it be Solange Knowles or Gloria Steinem or Ava DuVernay, there are so many awesome people in my life, and so I'm lucky for them to kind of have fostered my identity as I grow into myself.

  

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• I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

  

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• When scientists are asked what they are working on, their response is seldom 'Finding the origin of the universe' or 'Seeking to cure cancer.' Usually, they will claim to be tackling a very specific problem - a small piece of the jigsaw that builds up the big picture.

  

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• Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

  

  John Malkovich

• I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like this, and that's really up to them, that's fine, but I don't sit around all day analysing it. I just try and enjoy a show and interest myself because if I don't do that then I won't interest anybody else.

  

  Dylan Moran
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• I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Experience
  • Picture
  • Independent