Benji Madden Quotes
I really love 'Cold Song.' If anyone really listens to that song and thinks about their life, there's a lot of good material deep down in there. I think if you listen to the lyrics, it may take you on some sort of a journey.
Quotes to Explore
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your children, however, I recommend it - I almost insist on it - as the first step for anyone unhappy in a relationship.
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If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.
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I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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I'm not a drummer anymore, on my gravestone, if there is one, if anyone writes anything about me besides hopefully being a dad, it would be that I sang in my band when I was in my 20s. So I was like, 'Yeah, I should probably focus on this a little more,' so I just practiced a lot. (When asked about his singing.)
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Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners.
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The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
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I thought all those channels on cable TV were really cool.
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Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.
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I love working on cars.
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This is something I feel very strongly and very passionately about. Together I want us to pave the road from Ankara to Brussels. 'Turkey must be welcome in EU, insists Cameron'
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We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
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I really love 'Cold Song.' If anyone really listens to that song and thinks about their life, there's a lot of good material deep down in there. I think if you listen to the lyrics, it may take you on some sort of a journey.
