Chester Bennington Quotes

We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band.

Chester Bennington Linkin Park

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• WWE was an opportunity to wrestle in front of thousands - in 2013, I did 227 matches, and almost all of them were in front of more than three or four thousand people, with a high of 70,000 plus. It was an incredible experience to be part of that.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Experience
  • High

• In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Age
  • Internet
  • Talk

• I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Life
  • Different
  • Brave

• Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Everything
  • Build
  • Cinema

• Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Music
  • Money

• What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Should
  • Matter
  • Say

• I seemed to have been born reading.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Reading
  • Born
  • Been

• Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Smart

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Age
  • Care

• I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Like

• I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Character
  • Man
  • Look

• I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Words
  • Stop

• I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Ideas

• You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Want
  • Yourself

• Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Greek
  • Oil
  • Transform

• If you make a wrong move with explosives, it could be deadly. If you're there when they blow up the beach, you get blown up, too. So you need to get your job done correctly... then pull the fuse with enough lag time for you to clear the area completely and get picked up by the small boats.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• I wanted to come back with the team I grew up with.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • Team
  • Back

• About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Up
  • Simple
  • Paris

• From my experience working with comedians, there is that competitive aspect. With actors, for instance, they don't want to look competitive even if they are, whereas comedians, I think, are openly happy to play on the idea that they all compete with each other to get the laughs. There's something about comedy, I think, that encourages that. There's this kind of schoolboy sense of wanting to top the other person that we play off of to show them competing for who's smarter or cleverer.

  

  Michael Winterbottom
  • Thinking
  • Comedy
  • Laughing

• A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Political
  • Best
  • Couple

• A certain scenario kept repeating itself. The people from the magazines would take two or three shots of the band. They’d start to pack up. And then they’d sort of take me off into a corner by myself. After about the thirtieth time that a photographer asked me to take my shirt off, I started to get the picture.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The way I see it is that we've got three very effective frontmen in the group and I think that's enough for any band. If you had five frontmen, they'd start bumping into each other, not just physically, but also mentally in terms of writing and everything.

  

  Ian Hill Judas Priest
  • Band
  • Enough
  • Three

• We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band.

  

  Chester Bennington Linkin Park
  • Political
  • Band