Bradford Cox Quotes
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.
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The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.
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I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.
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In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.
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Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.
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The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success.
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You don't know who to believe. Like Abraham Lincoln. He said all men were created equal. He never went to a nude beach.
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Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.
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As I’ve said, I’ve never believed in God, which technically makes me an atheist (since the prefix “a” means “not” or “without”). But I have problems with the word “atheism.” It defines what someone is not rather than what someone is. It would be like calling me an a-instrumentalist for Bad Religion rather than the band’s singer. Defining yourself as against something says very little about what you are for.
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When I'm done with something, I'm done. I don't go back and listen to and pine for my old albums, or the Lollapalooza days, or 'Psalm 69' selling millions of records. Maybe I'm really just getting old and mellow.
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Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
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I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
