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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Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.
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Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.
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My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.
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I remember writing ‘All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs or getting into trouble since.
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I loved the culture of the youth ministry. It was exciting and there were lots of young people, and they were just excited about God. We had this thought that we wanted to write songs that our friends and the people in our youth ministry would love to sing and would love to use to draw near to God, and that’s basically how it all got started.
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I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
