Benji Madden Quotes

Good Charlotte's the first band we've ever been in, and back then, critics didn't matter. There were no rules. There was no one we had to impress.

Benji Madden Good Charlotte

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• Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.

  

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• Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

  

  Karen Duffy
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• The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

  

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• What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

  

  Jane Austen
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• Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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• I love L.A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay there. It wasn't necessarily Texas that I wanted to move to; I just knew I wanted to live in the country somewhere. My wife and I found this place in Texas that we really liked, so we packed up our stuff and moved.

  

  Scoot McNairy
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• Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.

  

  Bernard Lown
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• Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action.

  

  Brendan Brazier
  • Action
  • Needs
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• When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Passion
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• We are tornadoes that pick up fragments with the most varied historical and biological origins. This makes of us -- thankfully -- fickle agglomerations that maintain a fragile equilibrium, that are inconsistent and complex, that can't be reduced to any fixed framework that does not inevitably leave out a great deal. Which is why the more effective stories resemble ramparts from which one can gaze out at everything that has been excluded.

  

  Elena Ferrante
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• I tell everybody that I'm a quatre-sexual: I will do anything with anybody for a quarter.

  

  Merv Griffin
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• Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep’s clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
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• One of the major things in any dance-based reality show is how smartly you can impress the audience and keep your cool throughout the show.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
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• I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
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• This thing you carry inside you, I don't know what it is. I don't know where you got it. But Harry, the past is the past. You are alive today. That is all that matters. You must remember, because it is who you are, but as it is who you are, you must never, ever regret. To regret your past is to regret your soul.

  

  Catherine Webb
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• When I was younger I would have told you it was my genius, but now I don't believe that for a second. Music just comes out of you, it flows through, it's weird. If you think about it intellectually, how does someone come up with two hundred riffs over their life time?

  

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• Good Charlotte's the first band we've ever been in, and back then, critics didn't matter. There were no rules. There was no one we had to impress.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Impress
  • No Rules
  • First Band