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.

  

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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.

  

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• Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

  

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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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• Accept your loneliness. It is one stage, and only one stage, on a journey that brings you to God. It will not always last. Offer up your loneliness to God, as the little boy offered to Jesus his five loaves and two fishes. God can transform it for the good of others. Above all, do something for somebody else!

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
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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.

  

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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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  • Anybody
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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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• The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try.

  

  Joni Mitchell
  • Try
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• I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.

  

  Bill Mollison
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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