Benji Madden Quotes
As a kid, you're like, 'Do they have Preakness everywhere or just in Maryland?' You hear people talking about it, and it was like, 'Oh, everyone goes there to hang out and party.' I didn't even know it was a race until I got older.
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In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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As a kid, you're like, 'Do they have Preakness everywhere or just in Maryland?' You hear people talking about it, and it was like, 'Oh, everyone goes there to hang out and party.' I didn't even know it was a race until I got older.
