Joel Madden Quotes
People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
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South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
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I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.
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When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.
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I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
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In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.
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It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.
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What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
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We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.
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People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.
