Benji Madden Quotes
Good Charlotte fit in a lot of different genres - it's one of the coolest things our band has been able to do.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
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I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.
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I was born with an evil face.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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You don't have to wait-you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.
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Security, freedom, dignity, if we had these three we could say that it has been worth while being born into this world and I would like all the young people of Burma and young people all over the world to be able to feel that it was right that they have been born into this world.
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Because of the 9/11 attacks, the framing of terrorism by politicians, the media, and the public too often in the past decade and a half has been that it is Islamist political violence that is the terrorism we need to be concerned about.
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It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.
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I'm still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it.
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Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
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I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.
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For me, I value connection a lot, talking to people and connecting. Don't get me wrong: I enjoy having my own time, but I think it's really important to have that connection, so living on Mars would be a struggle for me.
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I wish there was something where you could blink an eye and be somewhere. I'm a very nervous flier. I wish we could get from point A to point B instantly.
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My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.
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I'm a little bit of a makeout king. I don't discriminate too much.
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As accelerators reach higher and higher energies, we may need a new Standard Model, or, at least, today's may need to be modified, but that's the way science operates.
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I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers.
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The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd because at that age that's a stupidly ridiculous idea 'cause how will I ever be a filmmaker.
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Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it's a huge undertaking.
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Good Charlotte fit in a lot of different genres - it's one of the coolest things our band has been able to do.
