Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
Quotes to Explore
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.
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We just here to do our job.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
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The toughest thing in hitting shouldn't be deciding when to swing. It is, for me, deciding when not to swing. You should be swinging from the time you get into the batter's box until something says don't swing.
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The hardest thing for me is to be patient and realize that it's not all going to happen right now. I just have to keep digging away, digging away. Just keep working on my game.
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When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.
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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
