Benji Madden Quotes
Anyone who's followed our band through the years has heard about the teenage angst.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
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I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
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The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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When someone's really good at encapsulating human emotion and putting it out in a form that can reach a variety of people, that's going to have a big effect when he's no longer there.
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For the most part, I think of PC as meaning Plain Civil. You treat people the way you'd like to be treated yourself, and that means not using language that is demeaning.
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Never take a loan against your retirement! When you pay interest against your retirement, you cost yourself interest.
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I love doing my own stunts. I'd love to do a full-on period sword-fighting piece where I get to show off with fighting and horses - I'm up for it.
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That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity.
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Making changes in the fast food that makes up such a significant part of the American diet, even if the numbers aren't impressive, will have important health up sides.
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I decided about a year ago, and I just feel like I want to see more personal style in people, and I feel like if I'm going to be out there in the public eye, they should see who I am and how I dress, and I feel like it, also.
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I have played football all my life, and my dad went to see Manchester United in 2005. Since then, I have been a fan.
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Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.
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Music is about textures as well as melody.
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I'll be honest: I was a super-late bloomer, and I was kind of a prude.
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For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!
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A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.
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Fortunately for me, it's my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we don't have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.
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I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.
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You used to defend your musical values to the hilt, but now if something isn't working, you just hop to another band. My youngest daughter went from Justin Bieber to the Jonas Brothers to Joy Division in the space of a few months!
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Anyone who's followed our band through the years has heard about the teenage angst.
