Colin Meloy Quotes
Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.
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Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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What people don't understand is when punk started it was so innocent and not aware of being looked at or being a phenomenon and that's what everyone gets wrong. You can't consciously create something that's important, it's a combination of chemistry, conditions, the environment, everything.
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There's so much music from Led Zeppelin that I think I overlooked when I was a kid because I didn't understand it, so now to revisit it at an older age, I have a deeper appreciation for it.
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Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.
