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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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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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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There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.
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In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.
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Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.
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Anyone who's followed our band through the years has heard about the teenage angst.
