Joel Madden Quotes
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
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We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they're typically not.
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I would never manipulate somebody and put somebody in peril so that I could get rich off of it.
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Once your company grows past a certain point, upholding values becomes more and more difficult. This is where companies get into trouble. Thus, it's absolutely critical to take your company values seriously and practice it every day.
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There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.
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When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.
