Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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Having fun is a dismal business after you pass fifty.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You won't find many who are consistent enough to copy, and there are enough variations in approach that it's obvious that it's not like hitting home runs or swinging a golf club. There isn't a standard approach, there's only what works for you (and what doesn't).
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In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.
