Benji Madden Quotes
Often people think they know what they want, but what they really want is something that's genuine. So they'll be saying, "Do another one like that," but you liked that one because it's real. So as long as I keep it real and I do something that's real to me, you're going to feel it in the same way.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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You can't watch 'Daredevil' or 'Jessica Jones' or the Marvel films and not be aware that the villain has to be awesome. I've always wanted to have more space. And the scope, morally, is more broad for the villain than the hero.
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I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'
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I'm a serial monogamist.
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I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
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Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.
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I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'
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Cinderella is making her Broadway debut. It's an honor to step into that position and, in that way, I am creating a role because it's never been done on Broadway. I feel so honored.
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I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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I have always weirdly seen myself as more of a character actor. I have never been suave. I could never see myself playing James Bond. I suppose I could fake it, but I am certainly not James Bond in real life.
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Nothing real is pretty, she said. Only a doll is pretty. And a pretty doll drinks out of a tiny cup forever. A woman wants a big cup.
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Often people think they know what they want, but what they really want is something that's genuine. So they'll be saying, "Do another one like that," but you liked that one because it's real. So as long as I keep it real and I do something that's real to me, you're going to feel it in the same way.
