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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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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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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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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Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
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I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.
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When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.
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For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.
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We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory.
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That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.
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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.
