Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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Good design should be honest.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down; you're going to have negative results.
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I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.'
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I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
