Bradford Cox Quotes
You gotta have friends, and it's really hard to have friends that don't operate on the same schedule as you or do the same kind of things you do, because they don't understand it. And then you realize that your friends - your real-life friends - it's not that they become fanboys of you but they become more interested in what you're doing than how you're doing.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
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Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing.
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I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.
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I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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My ignorance is widespread.
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
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In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.
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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
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Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.
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There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.
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The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.
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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
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You gotta have friends, and it's really hard to have friends that don't operate on the same schedule as you or do the same kind of things you do, because they don't understand it. And then you realize that your friends - your real-life friends - it's not that they become fanboys of you but they become more interested in what you're doing than how you're doing.
