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'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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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.
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You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.
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Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.
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There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
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I want to continually find ways to bring my ideas off the stage and into the real world, into the streets. I think I can make the world a better place, if only for a little while.
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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.
