Joel Madden Quotes
It's always a bit much, being in a band with your brother. We fight all the time, but it's kind of comical.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
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When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.
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I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression.
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I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.
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It's always a bit much, being in a band with your brother. We fight all the time, but it's kind of comical.
