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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Rain Run Running
The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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Background Broke People Quested The Question
The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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Home Naps Ordinary World
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you’re just boring.
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Bigger Boring Risk
We’ve been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we’ve done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f – -n’ believe in, because this is what it’s all about.
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Believe Long Mean
There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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Able Honesty Kids
Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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Darkness Individuals Minorities Place
We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we’re not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.
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Band Pride Trying
Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Mistake Risk Successful
Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.
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Lying Nowhere Population
My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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Jobs Rocks Stars
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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People Son Want
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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Playing Saws Swimming
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
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Lifestyle Punk Sound
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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Punk Rocks Thinking
I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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Bags Rocks Want
I like to keep my girlish figure
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Figures Keep Like
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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Anything Better Making Mistakes
Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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Depend Night Play
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
When you start getting into your politics it’s like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive. Because if it’s always like straight aggression all the time, there becomes no empathy for the stance that you’re taking.
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Empathy People Thinking
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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Care Hippie Want
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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Athlete Sports Believe
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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Afraid Entertainers Time
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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Everybody Joke Thought
I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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Names Rocks Thinking
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

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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.

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