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.
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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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Over the years, I've learned a lot about nutrition and about myself, so it's a lot more based on feel. I stopped putting a number on it because people were analyzing it too much.
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I have to watch out for being lazy.
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'The Red' is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest.
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I didn't watch TV or movies as a kid.
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Trust is the glue that holds everything together.
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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.
