Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.
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Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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For every project, there are so many people that work unbelievably hard behind the scenes to make a vision a reality.
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The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.
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I eat eight bags of chips in one sitting, and then nothing for a day or two. I learned that my body thought it was starving, so it would hold on to fat.
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I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.
