Benji Madden Quotes
As young kids, we had a lot of tenacity. Life was tough at home, so it was easy to go out in the world and try.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
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If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too.
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I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.
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People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.
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I don't believe in changing the unchangeable.
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It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
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Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.
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Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.
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Congress has a right and a need to know what this proposed deal would mean for terminal operations and security at our ports. Even if they come later than we would have liked, we must get the facts.
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Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.
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I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic.
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As young kids, we had a lot of tenacity. Life was tough at home, so it was easy to go out in the world and try.
