Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.
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We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.
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The solidarity of all progressive forces of the world towards the people of Vietnam today is similar to the bitter irony of the plebeians coaxing on the gladiators in the Roman arena. It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory.
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded.
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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
