Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

We are not afraid to be entertainers.

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• Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Face
  • Paint
  • Inside

• My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Dad
  • Brilliant
  • Gentle

• I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • People
  • Know
  • Fell

• No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • War
  • Car

• The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Simple
  • Will

• When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Thought
  • First
  • Rapper

• As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic truth, but still an honest portrayal.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Truth
  • Hope
  • Actor

• Well, I have been in physical altercations, but they weren't really fights because I am too scared and Jewish. So anytime that it gets to a point where there is gonna be a fight, I immediately apologize.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Fight
  • Jewish
  • Apologize

• Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Parents

• My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Children
  • American

• Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Today
  • You
  • Australia

• I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn't say Uzoamaka.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• California is a bellwether state. California was the first state in the United States to overturn the laws against interracial marriage. It took 19 years for the rest of the country to come around to that point of view.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Country
  • Rest
  • Marriage

• I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Write
  • Deal
  • Got

• I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Time
  • God
  • Death

• Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Personality
  • End

• I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.

  

  Andre Derain
  • Kids
  • Truth
  • Study

• There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.

  

  Pal Benko
  • Career
  • Success
  • Style

• I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • She
  • Speak
  • Popular

• Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

  

  JR artist
  • World
  • Art
  • Change

• I think pressure can be an incentive toward improvement, and while I'm not denying that I feel some, I will also stress that it is self-inflicted and hopefully can be channeled in a healthy way.

  

  Michael Koryta
  • Stress
  • Healthy
  • Pressure

• We are not afraid to be entertainers.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Afraid
  • Entertainers