Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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I'm as addicted to 'Power' as I am 'Empire.' I'm just grateful. We get a chance to have two phenomenal shows that we can enjoy. So when 'Empire' is over, 'Power' starts. When 'Power' is over, 'Empire' starts.
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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 believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
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I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
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I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.
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In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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I don't think quantitative easing is deliberately misleading, but I do think it's suspiciously bland and reassuring. It doesn't sound like anything big, experimental, scary and strange - which is what many economists think it is.
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I am one of the great wasters of time. I have made it an art form. I can get up at 8 o'clock in the morning, be out of the house by 8:30 and back by 5 P.M., and I'll be going all day long and accomplish absolutely nothing. It's an amazing talent.
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
