Colin Meloy Quotes
But, there's like a hole world out there! Filled with mystery and awe and sorrow and happiness.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
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I'm totally myself.
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That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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There's a certain attitude to Los Angeles.
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I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied.
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Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
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There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.
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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies have the biggest carbon footprint in the world, it doesn't mean they're stupid.
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I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.
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I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
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But, there's like a hole world out there! Filled with mystery and awe and sorrow and happiness.
