Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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I'm not looking to shock anyone.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.
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I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.
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A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.
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Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.
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It's one thing to be this 'tough chick,' but you also have to be likeable.
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The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments-of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue-are complete sceptics in religion.
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I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.