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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.
— Billie Jean King
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
And when you're poor, you grow up fast.
— Billie Holiday
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
— Billie Jean King
Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)
— Billie Joe Armstrong
And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
— Billie Jean King
I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the studio and singing.
— Lucinda Williams
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
— Billie Holiday
I love fresh flowers for my home. I spend far too much money on them, buying them almost every day.
— Billie Piper
The money The girl stiffened at something she heard in his voice, something jagged and sharp, like words torn by the blade of a knife.
— Billie Letts
As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don't know if we have it.
— Billie Jean King
I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.
— Abbey Lincoln
Our lives can change with every breath we take.
— Billie Letts
You want people to feel like they belong to something. And not be elitist. You don't want us to be elitist.
— Billie Jean King
Home gives you something no other place can ... your history. Home is where your history begins.
— Billie Letts
Don't go into debt and don't spend a lot. It's not how much money you make, it's how much you spend.
— Billie Jean King
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
— Billie Jean King
There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.
— Billie Burke
My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.
— Billie Jean King
I wanted to use sports for social change.
— Billie Jean King
It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.
— Billie Jean King
Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.
— Billie Jean King
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
— Billie Jean King
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
— Billie Holiday
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
— Billie Jean King
I never sing a song the same way twice.
— Billie Holiday
There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
— Billie Holiday
But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?
— Billie Burke
I'm always a work in progress.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
You have got to want to be the best before you can even begin to reach for that goal, and you have got to be prepared to sacrifice a lot to get there.
— Billie Jean King
I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
— Siobhan Fahey
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Love is like a faucet: it turns on and off.
— Billie Holiday
I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
— Billie Jean King
I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.
— Billie Piper
That's what the 'Doctor' is about, essentially - having that energy that you just can't understand.
— Billie Piper
I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'
— Billie Whitelaw
Create your legacy, and pass the baton.
— Billie Jean King
I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I like to keep my girlish figure
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.
— Billie Holiday
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.
— Billie Jean King
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.
— Billie Burke
I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Only Certain offered no enticements, for she knew nothing could ease the pain. Not books or photography or food. Not even love.
— Billie Letts
People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
At 62 you want to keep moving; that's important.
— Billie Jean King
Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.
— Billie Jean King
If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
— Barbra Streisand
I wrote a song called 'Green Day' because I was smoking a lot of dope.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Our love one's are never gone, they have just popped into another room.
— Billie Jean King
If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.
— Billie Holiday
I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.
— Billie Jean King
I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It's the worst name in the world
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
— Billie Holiday
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.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
— Billie Holiday
Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.
— Billie Burke
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
The boy, a ten-year-old copy of the man...
— Billie Letts
I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.
— Evan Rachel Wood
Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.
— Billie Jean King
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
— Billie Joe Armstrong
If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.
— Billie Holiday
Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
And in the background of Early's story was her voice. Her soul. Her sadness and longing. Because when it's raining, it's always Billie Holiday. p. 81
— Clare Vanderpool
When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.
— Billie Jean King
Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
The whole size zero debate is disgusting. My sister, who's 13, looks amazing - but she's already worried about her figure.
— Billie Piper
I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now ... its AFI-liner
— Billie Joe Armstrong