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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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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I think right after 'Up in the Air' everyone wanted me to play the girl from 'Up in the Air,' and it took a little while for people to think of me as an actress from a film that they liked instead of just that character.
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I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.
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Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
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If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
