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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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'm a suspicious mulatto, which means I'm too black to be white and too white to be doing it right.
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If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.
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I am happy with what I've done.
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Most people don't really need to hear a six-minute guitar solo that modulates between five keys and time signatures. What they want is a good song.
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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.
