Colin Meloy Quotes
Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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Are you loving having these great iconic stories back as much as I am? 'One Life' is back in action and I love putting my 'Blair on' again.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.
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If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
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But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.
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If you make a wrong move with explosives, it could be deadly. If you're there when they blow up the beach, you get blown up, too. So you need to get your job done correctly... then pull the fuse with enough lag time for you to clear the area completely and get picked up by the small boats.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
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I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page. That's not fun for me. For me, part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium.
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They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.
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How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he's never even made $8 or $9 million?
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What's Buffy got? A wooden stake, some garlic. Xena has a full arsenal of weapons.
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The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
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I like my dry-aged steaks.
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The very first concert I ever went to was a Green Day concert when I was 12 years old, at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ont., and I remember right after seeing them perform I started a band, and I wanted to get up in front of people and start performing. Ten years later, to be on the Green Day 'American Idiot' tour is really awesome.
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Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.
