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.

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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.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Political
  • Democrat
  • Orientation

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

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Water
  • Beach
  • Illness

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

  

  Clara Barton
  • Door

• 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
  • Money
  • Happiness

• Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Relationships
  • Man Is
  • Tied

• 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
  • People
  • Country
  • Wife

• 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
  • Changing

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

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Passion
  • Task
  • Urgency

• 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
  • Equilibrium
  • Framework
  • Gaze

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

  

  Merv Griffin
  • Anything
  • Anybody
  • Quarters

• 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
  • Government
  • Devil
  • Liberties

• If you can't do, you had best shut up.

  

  Esther Forbes
  • Shut Up
  • Can't Do

• What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Food
  • Shelter
  • Clothing

• Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

  

  George Voinovich
  • Time
  • Peace
  • Liberating

• Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are contending for.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Importance

• I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Job
  • Hate
  • Attention

• 'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

  

  Austin Farrer
  • Life
  • Power
  • Death

• 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