Benji Madden Quotes

I think we live in a time where we can all distract ourselves from facing the pain or the reality of all of our lives - tons of ways to hide, to kill pain, to deal with pain.

Benji Madden Good Charlotte

• Reality
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• Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Fiction

• I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Job
  • Reality

• Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Pain
  • Baby

• Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • People
  • World
  • Reality

• I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

  

  Karen O
  • Pain
  • End
  • Promise

• Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Reality
  • You
  • Perfect

• That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Military

• I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Pain
  • My Life

• I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Me

• All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • World
  • Reality
  • Best

• If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Animals

• Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Reality
  • Wish
  • Face

• I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • I Believe

• I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Kind

• I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Work
  • Pain

• The greatest evil is physical pain.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Medical

• Unlike a well-defined, precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Game
  • Reality

• The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Pain
  • Moments

• I like to watch all those shows that shouldn't be on the air - reality shows.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Reality
  • Air

• Being gritty doesn't mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They're able to say things like, 'Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.' That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • People
  • Giving
  • Lost

• Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.

  

  Erich Heller
  • World
  • Careful
  • Interpret

• All too often, when people think about art in the U.K., they think London. There's some really great work being produced outside of the capital city and I think it is important to stop and acknowledge that.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Art
  • I Think
  • Acknowledge

• I think we live in a time where we can all distract ourselves from facing the pain or the reality of all of our lives - tons of ways to hide, to kill pain, to deal with pain.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Reality
  • Pain
  • Distract