#ant

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#i #inward #ivory #just #live

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#any #closely #constantly #ever #eye

I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#i #lives #painting #wanted #who

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#close #close proximity #deal #definitely #everybody

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. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#just #people #political #tell #them

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#day #education #goes #granted #i

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#always #just #politics #sake #want

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#called #escape #first #first time #home

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#awful #book #convent #disgusted #felt

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#britain #century #countries #every #france