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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These were songs that we?d been writing and collecting over the years. Some of them we actually thought about putting on previous albums. But we didn't want to make it seem like they were filler tracks or novelties in the middle of a rock record. We felt like they were too important for that.
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Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.
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I've always enjoyed hiding behind these characters. It's a strange thing, you're more comfortable as a character than you are in life. I could stand up in front of, it doesn't matter how many people, as a character. But if I had to do it as myself and give a speech, I would be liquid.
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All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of not having any studio experience and having to do everything so fast. I also think that studios are, by nature, limiting. You cannot get the sound of five big amplifiers on a little piece of tape.
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I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
