Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
'We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world'
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I'm a character actor.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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My dad wouldn't even start the car until he heard the click of every seat belt.
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The message was always, 'It's good to be pretty, but don't look like you're trying to be pretty!' Inherent in that is a lot of misogyny, I think, because the implication is, 'You must work hard to achieve a feminine ideal for which society has nothing but contempt.'
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'We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world'
