Benji Madden Quotes
You've got to think, when we started our band, none of us had a computer until we were 21.

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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.
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But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room.
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Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
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The spirit of non-conformity is as prevalent now in my part of west Yorkshire as it was in the time of my two immediate predecessors, Mike Wood and Elizabeth Peacock.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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You've got to think, when we started our band, none of us had a computer until we were 21.