Bradford Cox Quotes

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

Bradford Cox

• Music
• Opposite
• Vitality

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• What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Now
  • Surface
  • Once

• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Needs
  • Cuba
  • Dose

• I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

  

  Babette March
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Just

• If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Hand
  • Military
  • Fight

• I'm trying to be more organized, put together, and be more kind to myself. I'm really hard on myself and really just self-critical and always striving for this perfection which doesn't exist.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Myself

• In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Money
  • Future

• Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Team
  • Leadership
  • Fight

• I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Hate
  • Wish
  • Body

• I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Country
  • Process
  • Strive

• People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.

  

  Barbara Billingsley
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • You
  • Know
  • Try

• Netanyahu's raison d'etre is to save Israel from Iran. That is it. That is his mission in the most profound sense. I have seen it up close.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Up
  • Profound
  • Mission

• English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Nature
  • English

• Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • U.S.
  • Cowards
  • Fatigue

• I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Church

• Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Society
  • Alone

• It's unbelievable how many things I've learned from Merlin Olsen.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Things
  • Learned
  • Many

• I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.

  

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

• Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.

  

  Frank Rich
  • Moral
  • Patience
  • Bubbles

• One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • Believe
  • Done

• What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.

  

  Bob Taft
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Freedom

• The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Financial

• I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Music
  • Opposite
  • Vitality