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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Beautiful Life Pretty
There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
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Mean Money Some Successful Teacher
There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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Depend Loser Nothing
I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not.
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Come Imagine Klutziness Rock Roller
I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now… its AFI-liner
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Brands Eyeliner Heard
A man once asked me, what’s punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that’s punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That’s just trendy.
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Men Punk Trash
Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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Lying Nowhere Population
History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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Band Day Good One
I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
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Character Country Differences Thinking
I wrote a song called “Green Day” because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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Dope Smoking Song
It’s okay to grow up, it’s just slowing down that’s the scary part. Running out of time. It’s okay to grow up, but it doesn’t mean you have to become like your parents.
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Growing Mean Running Up
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Bigger Boring Risk
If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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Ass Green Paint Soon Sure
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
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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Fun Ipod Kids
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Playing Saws Swimming
A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can’t wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you’re a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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People Shut Up Waiting
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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Fun Kids Together
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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Majority Sick Thinking
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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Good Guy Looking Taste
I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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Character Nuts Ordinary Party World
Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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Air Blood Veins
Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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Just Missionary Position
You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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Fun Honest Sync Together Yourself
Nobody leaves this band unless it’s in a coffin
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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Matter Parent Sacrifice
The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really.
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Character Daughter Thinking

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