Graham Coxon Quotes
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.
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You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
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Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.
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Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times.
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I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.
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I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things.
