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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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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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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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
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My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless.
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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
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It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.
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And, of course, the funniest food: 'kumquats'. I don't even bring them home anymore. I sit there laughing and they go to waste.
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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.
