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

• 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

• The Master would frequently assert that holiness was less a matter of what one did than of what one allowed to happen.

  

  Anthony de Mello

• He's one of my closest friends in the industry. He makes me feel like a teenager - I have to act and think like an adult so much. He makes me feel young again.

  

  Rihanna
  • Friends
  • Teenager

• It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

  

  Joe Chung
  • Time
  • Long
  • Simple

• I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Believed

• The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Day
  • Dog
  • Moment

• Many of us now expect our online activities to be recorded and analyzed, but we assume the physical spaces we inhabit are different. The data broker industry doesn't see it that way. To them, even the act of walking down the street is a legitimate data set to be captured, catalogued, and exploited.

  

  Kate Crawford
  • Different
  • Walking

• 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
  • Night
  • Reason
  • Festivals