Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
Quotes to Explore
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
Rafael Yglesias -
My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
Ted Koppel -
I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
Patrick Warburton -
I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
Patrick McHenry -
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
E. W. Howe
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
J. B. Pritzker -
I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
Rainn Wilson -
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barack Obama -
My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
Kate Micucci -
There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
M. F. K. Fisher -
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
Lady Gregory
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The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
Nastia Liukin -
Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
Lady Gaga -
It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
Kaskade -
I drink a gallon of water a day.
Gabrielle Union -
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard
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Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
Kary Mullis -
Saudi Arabia is, of course, the keystone of OPEC. Saudi Arabia has had the distinction of remaining stable through all the escalating tumult of recent decades, reliably pumping out its roughly 10 million barrels a day like Bossy the cow in America's oil import barn.
James Howard Kunstler -
I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
Robert Smith The Cure -
If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.
Gail Collins -
VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show.
Eddie Trunk -
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day