Colin Meloy Quotes
My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.

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I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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I love football, football is my life.
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We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
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I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
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Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.
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An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.
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I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.
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Lance Armstrong: How bad do you want to win a stage in the Tour de France?
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This is the way how we have to understand the accounts of trials; we must not think that God desires to examine us and to try us in order to know what He did not know before. Far is this from Him; He is far above that which ignorant and foolish people imagine concerning Him, in the evil of their thoughts. Note this.
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I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
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One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.
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I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.
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Certain gorillas are more evolved than certain human beings I know.
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We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.
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A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.
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I'm fine. Just got to take it easy and not overdo it.
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My mother felt we'd be earning a living during our entire adult lives, and therefore believed we should spend summers in learning activities. Consequently, I got to see a plate glass factory in Pittsburgh, a U.S. Steel plant, and how Heinz made ketchup.
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My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.