Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.
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My view is we should be doing everything we can to come up with ways of exploiting the current technology effectively.
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Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.
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You're gonna be your best salesman. If you don't sell yourself, nobody else is gonna have a better time with it than you. You've gotta get up for it, every day.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
