Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.
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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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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Critics think we try to make bad films. They think we want to spend five months of our lives making something bad. We always go out with the best of intentions, whether it's fluffy comedy or a drama.
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When we find a ship, we turn it over to the state or federal government. It's purely historical. I've never made a dime on any of it.
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The right to be a god.
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I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence.
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People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.
