Joel Madden Quotes

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

Joel Madden Good Charlotte

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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.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Important
  • Real
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Play

• I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • America
  • Hate
  • Relationship

• 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.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Money
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Live
  • Mystery
  • Busy

• You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Community
  • Know
  • Office

• Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Hate
  • Deserved
  • Paul McCartney

• I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Hard Work
  • Fail

• 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.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Boy

• I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Smart
  • Write
  • Own

• 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.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Car
  • Sports

• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Way
  • Peace

• A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Writing
  • Through

• 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.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Simple
  • Woman
  • Hands

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Insult

• The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Politics
  • Foundation

• How would Jonathan Lethem have obtained such a stellar endorsement for 'The Fortress of Solitude' from Michael Chabon, if not for the years they spent ghostwriting 'MAD' magazine fold-ins together?

  

  Dave Itzkoff
  • Together
  • Mad
  • Solitude

• We were content to be undisturbed in our our little backwater, Union Grove, Washington County, in a place once called the Empire State, where the Battenkill runs into the Hudson River.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • River

• Gratitude and complaining cannot co-exist simultaneously. Choose the one that best serves you.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • inspirational
  • Gratitude
  • Complaining

• You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Life
  • Music
  • Want

• I was able to represent my country and put on the red, white, and blue - how many people in the world get to do that? Standing on the podium with my teammates, and being the first women's gymnastics team to win this gold medal, it was life-changing!

  

  Dominique Moceanu
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • Life