Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
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I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.
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I'm pretty sure I'm going to fall in my GaGa shoes one night on tour and I'm hoping it becomes a Youtube sensation.
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What we did with 'Tai Chi Zero' and 'Tai Chi Hero' was break down the martial-arts genre and make it younger, hipper, and kind of cooler for the younger kids.
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I started listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young when I was 8 or 9 years old - I had siblings that gave me good music instead of the crap that was on the radio in the '90s.
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There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
