Benji Madden Quotes
There are some people i'd take a bullet for, and some people i'd like to put a bullet in.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.
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I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.
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What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.
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Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind.
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I love winning. I don't like losing.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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Each week we usually have one person who's never done the show before. Last year we had close to 60 who'd never done the show before. We're constantly booking new people, sometimes to the consternation of people who live here who do the show regularly.
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There are some people i'd take a bullet for, and some people i'd like to put a bullet in.
