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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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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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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I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
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I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil fuels out of the ground to run our transportation. They'd be like, 'What?'
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I have a great band of great guys. We're a lot of fun.
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I get the ideas from everything. Children sometimes think you have to have special experiences to write, but good writing brings out what's special in ordinary things.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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Nothing sounded as sincere as Nirvana's music. It took a long time for me to accept that any other music could be good in other ways. Including my own.
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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.
