Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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Once an Armyman, always an Armyman.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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I meet fascinating people I respect and idolise all the time.
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We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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Clients usually come to me when they want to update the look of an existing room.
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Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.
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Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
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Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.
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We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.
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Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it's a really rich sort of place to grab stories from... people starting over completely, saying goodbye to their lives before... it never ends in terms of story opportunities.
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I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
