Benji Madden Quotes

I need a little criticism while I make a record so that I kind of feel like: okay, I know that I'm doing the best that I can do because someone is actually here challenging it.

Benji Madden Good Charlotte

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• My credentials, briefly: I no longer go to church or believe in God, but I can still name every one of the fruits of the Spirit and reeled for days upon hearing the announcement that Audio Adrenaline was reunited with one of the singers from DC Talk.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • God
  • Believe
  • Church

• When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Long
  • Society

• I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Like

• When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Dressing
  • Shoe
  • Closet

• China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Hope
  • Understanding
  • China

• I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Knees
  • Which
  • Affects

• In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Hope
  • Lost
  • Stop

• Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Sleep
  • Famous
  • Lose

• The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Feeling
  • Kind
  • Being

• Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

  

  Rand Paul
  • School
  • Help
  • Child

• I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Die
  • Wrong
  • Prove

• Here is a list of fearful things:The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings,The rabid bite of the dog's of war,The voice of one who went before.But most of all the mirror's gaze,which counts us out our numbered days.

  

  Clive Barker
  • War
  • Dog
  • Mirror

• It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.

  

  Billy Crystal

• I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• The truth is, I hate to perform. I get such bad stage fright, it makes me physically ill.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Hate

• Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker.

  

  David Farr

• Most people are embarrassed to admit there's another human being that's in control of them, that your heart beats three times as fast because you've given yourself to someone else.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • People
  • Heart
  • Control

• The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

  

  Bruce Beresford
  • World
  • Art
  • High

• As for consulting a dentist regularly, my punctuality practically amounted to a fetish. Every twelve years I would drop whatever I was doing and allow wild Caucasian ponies to drag me to a reputable orthodontist.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Years
  • Twelve
  • Ponies

• When you have one billion dollars, that's not your money. That's the trust the society gives to you.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Society
  • Trust

• Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Reality
  • Moralists

• The criticism people could have of my music maybe is that it's somewhat schizophrenic at times. And if you don't like that, it could bother you.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • People
  • Music
  • Criticism

• The project will use state-of-the-art technology on both the hardware and software side. The sheer size and scope makes this project physically complex and technically challenging.

  

  Bob Myers
  • Technology
  • Project
  • Software

• I need a little criticism while I make a record so that I kind of feel like: okay, I know that I'm doing the best that I can do because someone is actually here challenging it.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Criticism
  • Record
  • Challenging