Benji Madden Quotes
The whole time you're bouncing ideas off each other, you continue to try and push the songs as far as you can take them and make them the best that they can be.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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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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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.
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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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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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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 difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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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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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.
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I have amply provided for my son during my lifetime.
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I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.
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When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn't hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people
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The whole time you're bouncing ideas off each other, you continue to try and push the songs as far as you can take them and make them the best that they can be.
