Benji Madden Quotes
I think, a lot of times, people think they know what they want, but what they really want is something that's genuine.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.
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Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
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I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
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Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
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People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas.
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We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.
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Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.
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I look fashionable every day. And the pendulum swings between more, or less, edgy when I'm with bankers.
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In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
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People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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It's not a flag that I look at with anything favorable. That's for sure, ... I can't tell people what flag to fly.
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My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.
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I think, a lot of times, people think they know what they want, but what they really want is something that's genuine.
