Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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I have a thing for working with wounded characters.
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The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.
