Benji Madden Quotes

You find, as the years go on and you have some success, people kind of start to say yes when they should say no.

Benji Madden Good Charlotte

• Success
• Start

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day you're in. You have no control over the finished product, what people will think of it, so all you have is the experience of making it, and you have to stay focused on that.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • Experience
  • Control

• Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • End
  • Research
  • Determination

• The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Find
  • Interest
  • Mystery

• In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Love
  • Parents

• Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Thinking
  • Thought
  • Doing

• India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • World
  • Country
  • May

• It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Breathe
  • Possible

• God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • God
  • Brain
  • Goes

• For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Success
  • Man
  • Woman

• When you follow your heart's calling, you wind up becoming your most powerful self. You don't need to take power from others if you can tap into your own inner power.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Power

• I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Time
  • World
  • Team

• I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Up
  • Years
  • Here

• When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Boy
  • Own
  • Little

• My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Women
  • Human Rights

• Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Men
  • Character
  • High

• So many of the great songs are written in response to some cataclysmic event. You can't make that happen; it just happens. So you wait for life to happen, and it informs your art. And when life catches you by surprise, that can lead to the best art.

  

  Dan Wilson
  • Life
  • Art
  • Surprise

• I wish it didn't take soooooo much to get physically to where I need to be.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Wish
  • Need
  • I Wish

• Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of the story you're writing. But the real key to success lies in finding the right characters to carry that story.

  

  Joan Lingard
  • Time
  • Important
  • Writing

• Apply the ABC’s of success to your life. Ask, Believe and Claim It.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Apply

• You find, as the years go on and you have some success, people kind of start to say yes when they should say no.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Success
  • Start