Benji Madden Quotes
The songwriting process is different on every record because you're never coming from the same place when you're writing.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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I think Hugh Laurie is awesome. You just want to loathe that guy in 'House' because he is not a friendly person, but somehow or another, he is profoundly charming.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
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There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
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As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.
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I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
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Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.
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As long as they (government) make businesses grow in the country, as long as we collect more taxes, as long as we use those taxes efficiently, I think the confidence will come back, every one will be very happy with whatever government is in the Centre and we will be better country.
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Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.
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The songwriting process is different on every record because you're never coming from the same place when you're writing.
