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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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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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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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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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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The whole industry evolves around a great song.
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Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.
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I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.
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People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
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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.
