Benji Madden Quotes
All the best songs are, I think, the easiest write because they just come out.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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Sometimes you feel a need to express yourself, and there is no better way than to go to places where people need everything. It's dramatic, it's tragic. You just can't understand why, in the world of today, there are still things like that. The images you see on TV kill you. Of course when you are there (at these trouble spots) you can't turn off the TV. You are face-to-face with reality.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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I have sung some great songs, and fortunately, all have gone to become hits.
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All the best songs are, I think, the easiest write because they just come out.
