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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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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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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I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.
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My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.
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I think it's really important for managers to be liked by his players because ultimately, on the pitch, those players will give everything for their manager.
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That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
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Red lips don't look good on blotchy, uneven skin.
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Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.
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Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.
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When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
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Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.
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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.
