Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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I worked at CNN for almost 26 years. I worked in Mutual Radio for 20 years. I've been in the business 57 years. I have never seen a bias off the air or on.
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For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
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Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
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I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.
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People keep asking me if recently performing the Betty album will influence the song-writing and I think it might. There's songs on that record that I forgot about and it's really nice to have that variety in the set along with tracks from Strap It On, Meantime, Aftertaste, Size Matters, Monochrome, and Seeing Eye Dog.
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The minute you start keeping score, you're destroying the relationship.
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To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
