Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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I don't like controversy.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer... that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.
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Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
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I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.
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You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.
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A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
