Benji Madden Quotes
There's definitely a lot of moments in my life now where I go, 'Wow, I get paid for this.' I've had worse jobs.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I've been in trouble most of my life. No stealing or anything like that, just fights. It's all fights.
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The single greatest under-utilized resource we have as a nation is women and girls.
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To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.
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There's definitely a lot of moments in my life now where I go, 'Wow, I get paid for this.' I've had worse jobs.
