Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.
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Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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Listening is the key to everything good in music.
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Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
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Finishing something is the hardest part. You know it's not as good as you hoped. You know there are plot problems. You know that by finishing it, you're saying - even if only to yourself - 'This is the best I can do.' And because it's not perfect, that's really hard.
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I always thought of him [Jack Kennedy] as a prince, with a charmed life. He was a guy who was sick and in horrendous pain all the time - who would say, "I wish I had a few good days."
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Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.
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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
