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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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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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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Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.
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I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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I really didn't want to leave the show, but I got a chance to do a movie, which meant I would have had to miss two shows, and at the time Lorne had a policy where you can't miss shows, so I left.
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I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
