Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.
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No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.
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It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to change in your own life.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She's a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I'd pull out my iPod and show her different old rock 'n' roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn't we all be entitled to a family-Civil rights baby it's civil rights. It doesn't get any better here in Berkeley I'll tell you that.
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There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I get myself into? Hopefully, I don't ruin this guy's precious script." And then, after a couple of days of shooting, I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I've never done before, and I love making stuff.
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It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.
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I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.
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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
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If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.