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

• 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

• We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center of the meadow and dart into the woods.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Sounds
  • Birds
  • Woods

• I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Break
  • Back
  • Touring

• Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Thought
  • Would

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

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Food
  • Shelter
  • Clothing

• I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Friends
  • Devil
  • Bridge

• Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Night
  • Food
  • Eight

• The ‘right reading’ is an invention of academics and critics. Every reader gets from the book he is reading nothing else but his book. The shelves where we line up the volumes we’ve read are deceptive. We have available there only titles, covers, pages. But the books we’ve truly read are phantoms conjured up by reading with no rules.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Critics

• If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.

  

  Nizar Qabbani
  • Kill
  • Leave
  • Madness

• 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