Bradford Cox Quotes
A song like "Walkabout", it's totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I've never really made a song to make people happy before. I really genuinely wanted people to listen to that song and have their spirits lifted.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.
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The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
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I went through that stage of the Mumford & Sons and the Alanis Morissette vibe. I was in a dark place at the time.
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An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
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We went through a hard time, and we had to turn to music as a means to putting food on the table. And we've been doing it ever since. No regrets either.
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By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.
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I have nothing against Ronaldo.
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I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.
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I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played - I've taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different.
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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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A song like "Walkabout", it's totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I've never really made a song to make people happy before. I really genuinely wanted people to listen to that song and have their spirits lifted.
