Benji Madden Quotes
Anyone who's followed our band through the years has heard about the teenage angst.
Quotes to Explore
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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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To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
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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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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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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 need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.
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Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.
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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 liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.
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There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive.
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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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I come from the deep countryside. My family was in farming. I was not really exposed to business. Coming from that environment, I just wanted in my life to go overseas - that was a childhood dream because I wanted diversity, contacts, cultural meetings with others.
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
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When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'
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Anyone who's followed our band through the years has heard about the teenage angst.
