Bradford Cox Quotes

People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.

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• Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • America
  • Doing
  • Wonderful

• When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Age
  • Growing
  • Same

• I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Me
  • Broken
  • Down

• From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Greatest
  • Irony
  • Horrors

• We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Football
  • Red
  • Summer

• I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Experience
  • Worry
  • Go

• When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • America
  • Movies
  • Media

• I've never worried about how long the song is.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Long
  • Song
  • Never

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Business
  • Think
  • Want

• Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Information
  • Office

• In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Politics
  • Pakistan

• The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. I am often, in my writing, great leaps ahead of where I am in my thinking, and my thinking has to work its way slowly up to what the 'superconscious' has already shown me in a story or poem.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• 5) Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Real

• I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But I didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Children
  • Running
  • Wind

• How was I supposed to know?She was slowly letting go?If I was puttin her through her hell,Hell I couldn't tell.She could've given me a sign,Could've opened up my eyes.How was I supposed to see?She never cried in front of me.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • She
  • Eyes

• I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Remember
  • Childhood
  • Summer

• More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).

  

  Matthew Sweet
  • Music

• You don't like to have people believing that you're doing the wrong thing which is why we're trying to make sure that people recognise that we do the right thing.

  

  Ian McLeod
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• Chorus of Birds: Man naturally is deceitful, ever indeed, and always, in every one thing. (tr. Warter 1830, p. 199)

  

  Aristophanes

• I had almost no education. I hardly went to school. I’d be away for weeks doing films, then I’d come back and have no idea what they were talking about. Of course the other kids loved it: ‘You may be a well-known star but you don’t know how to do algebra.’ It was a nightmare.

  

  Petula Clark
  • School
  • May
  • Kids

• People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.

  

  Bradford Cox
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