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 wasn't the most confident kid in school and college.
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I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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There's a relationship in the reality with how theater is presented - you can't experience that anywhere else. When you mess up, you mess up obviously, when you sweat, you sweat obviously, when you cry, you cry obviously. There's no hiding in theater.
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I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort - I think it keeps you going.
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There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
