Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco -
You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
Yitzhak Shamir -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
Edgar Ramirez -
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai -
To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
Venus Williams
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Quintilian -
Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
Adam Braun -
I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.
Imre Kertesz -
I'm not a Democrat.
Aaron McGruder -
I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
Fay Godwin -
My dad doesn't hug me enough!
Jack Whitehall -
By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
Brown Campbell -
There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.
Sam Altman -
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
Ugo Betti -
I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
Nathan Fillion
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
Anne Stevenson -
Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena.
John Burnside -
This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day