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.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
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If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.
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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.
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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.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
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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.
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It's unbelievable how many things I've learned from Merlin Olsen.
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I started out, as most astronomers do, with a university job. But in my generation, women weren't very welcome at universities, and so I found a job in the government. And the government was appreciably more welcoming.
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It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
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I took Second City out of desperation, and that's what ended up working out. It shows that you should be doing a lot of different stuff, taking whatever opportunities are there, to see what works.
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Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautiful.
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I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.
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I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.
