Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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For me, family has always come first.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
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I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach.
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Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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Poems get to the point where they are stronger than you are. They come up from some other depth and they find a place on the page. You can never find that depth again, that same kind of authority and voice. I might feel I would like to change something about them, but they’re still stronger than I am and I cannot.
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If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.
