Benji Madden Quotes

The guy who runs Big Day Out doesn't like us for some reason; I don't even know why. We do all the other festivals, and we enquired about it. Who knows, maybe he'll eventually crack, but maybe not. We're just going to keep knocking on his door late at night saying, 'Come on, dude!'

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• I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'

  

  Randa Haines
  • God
  • Children
  • Me

• Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Girl

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Baby

• (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Car
  • Thought

• I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Marriage

• I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Time
  • Want
  • Start

• I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Beginning
  • Effort

• Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Women
  • Technology
  • Choose

• In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Family
  • Born
  • Far

• As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Professional
  • Actor
  • Choice

• Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Anybody
  • Any

• You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Time
  • Long
  • Moment

• 'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Beautiful
  • Working
  • Learned

• I'm one of the first invention capitalists.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • First
  • Invention

• You have to ask if the country would have been ready for Barack Obama if we hadn't been prepared by Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. If they hadn't already been in positions of enormous power and influence - secretary of state, secretary of defence - you know what I mean?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Country
  • Power
  • Influence

• Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

  

  Flume
  • Great
  • Music
  • Die

• Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Inspiration
  • Names
  • Mexican

• I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

  

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Death

• Let's face it: fitness is boring. But it's critical to be extremely dedicated to whatever you decide to take up to achieve a desired result. There's no way you are going to get there without dedication, which is the key for me.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Achieve
  • Boring
  • Fitness

• The age of 20 was all about stupid things. I did crazy things but never lost it. I was, you know, a little crazy. I once broke up with my boyfriend in London and went to an Indian guy's apartment who I didn't know and who told me he saw my aura and gave me a massage.

  

  Ayelet Zurer
  • Up
  • Age
  • Guy

• I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. ... There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• The guy who runs Big Day Out doesn't like us for some reason; I don't even know why. We do all the other festivals, and we enquired about it. Who knows, maybe he'll eventually crack, but maybe not. We're just going to keep knocking on his door late at night saying, 'Come on, dude!'

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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