Benny Andersson Quotes

Interview during the 1977 Australian tour, included in "ABBA: The Movie"

Benny Andersson ABBA

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• Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.

  

  Nas
  • Friends
  • America
  • Friend

• My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Help

• I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Deep
  • Almost
  • Zone

• Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • America
  • Opportunity

• Filming '24' is just like watching '24.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Like
  • Just
  • Watching

• I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Find

• I'm gonna drop fitty. I'm gonna drop fitty pounds. How many quarter-pounders with cheeses is that? I'm gonna drop 200 quarter-pounder with cheeses.

  

  Jack Black
  • Many
  • How
  • Drop

• Many years ago, in the throes of my struggles on the PGA Tour, I had difficulty even getting into pro-ams. I needed money, so I put together a 45-minute magic show I'd perform at corporate events surrounding the tournament.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Money
  • Together
  • Magic

• Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!'

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • God
  • Freedom
  • Rock

• I understand that in some families both parents have to work, so the kids are home alone eating more processed foods. But if the kids know how to make oatmeal or eggs in the morning or pasta or a lentil soup at night - we're giving them real survival tools.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Work
  • Real
  • Home

• When you've seen a lot of bad stuff and just want to enjoy your life and be happy and have your kids happy and have your friends happy, you just have a value system where it raises the bar on what's important.

  

  Bob Saget
  • Life
  • Important
  • Kids

• Americans overwhelmingly believe that Americans who want to do jobs, who are looking for work, should have a fair opportunity, if not a preference, to do that work.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Opportunity

• What's good is that my music is different from everyone else's. It's got the soul element, like Duffy, but it's not very retro. It's a contemporary, pop, fresh sound. That's what makes it different.

  

  Pixie Lott
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding?

  

  Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Real
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a loving cat or dog from an animal shelter instead of buying animals from breeders or pet shops.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Stop
  • Animal
  • Dog

• I want work that, possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art, foregrounds the question of how the writer solves being alive.

  

  David Shields
  • Life
  • Work
  • Art

• There's a lot of dancing in football. You can see Victor Cruz doing a little bit of a cha-cha or samba move in the end zone. You can see Terrell Owens getting his popcorn ready. You can see Ochocinco doing the riverdance. But not so much when it comes to ballroom.

  

  Emmitt Smith
  • Football

• I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

  

  Francois Gautier
  • Education
  • Paris
  • Catholic

• The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Life
  • Know

• Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Fear
  • Person
  • Vocabulary

• The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state.

  

  Anthony Gregory
  • Government
  • Competition
  • Divide

• Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

  

  Morgan Brittany
  • People
  • Hollywood
  • Pedestal

• In a new interview, Newt Gingrich says he cheated on two of his wives because he was too consumed with love for his country. Yeah, apparently he misunderstood the phrase, 'Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Country
  • Interview
  • Allegiance

• Interview during the 1977 Australian tour, included in "ABBA: The Movie"

  

  Benny Andersson ABBA
  • Interview