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.

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• Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Job
  • Health

• 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

• There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Successful
  • Petty

• 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

• Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Home
  • Suffering
  • Ability

• 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

• You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Good
  • You
  • Education

• If you asked would I have done a startup in India, the answer is yes.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • Done

• The Savior accomplished the Atonement, which resolves the most terrible burdens that can occur in this life.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • Life

• When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

  

  Andy Serkis

• My health has not improved. Often I get so excited that I cannot bear with myself. Then again I become calm, as I am at this present moment of writing, although I am already fatigued. Next Monday, if God permit, I will go to a bull-fight, and I wish you were able to accompany me.

  

  Francisco Goya
  • God
  • Writing
  • Wish

• Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • Music
  • Business
  • Success

• 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