Colin Meloy quote: "[Though he doesn't write political songs, Sixteen Military Wives (a track off Picaresque , the band's third and latest full-length album) does have political overtones, as seen in the humorous video clip depicting a model United Nations conference in a high school with the U.S. representative acting like a self-important bully.] It's kind of a protest song, ... My objective is to make sense of foreign policy decisions taken by the current Bush administration and showing how they resemble solipsistic bullying."

And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written p...
COLIN MELOY

We actually have been toying around with a theatrical element. We even had outfits that we wore on s...
COLIN MELOY

Meloy's balladry brings to mind vaudeville, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, 'Sweeney Todd,' the Victorian an...
COLIN MELOY

They're like the mirror of myself - I've got both male and female counterparts. I'm really happy to ...
COLIN MELOY

It's kind of a protest song. My objective is to make sense of foreign policy decisions taken by the ...
COLIN MELOY

Look at the leader of my country, he is somebody I cannot relate to at all. He is so far removed fro...
COLIN MELOY

Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.
MAILE MELOY

We came back strong in the third to tie the game. We had to use a lot of energy to come back.
DALAWNA MELOY

We missed the front end of some one-and-ones early. That and we turned the ball over 16 times in the...
DALAWNA MELOY

We ended up trying to run with them a little bit in the second quarter.
DALAWNA MELOY

It takes experience to know what is a catastrophe (Richard Hughes, 'A High Wind in Jamaica'),
MAILE MELOY

They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids’ adventure books, where the boy hero has exact...
MAILE MELOY

...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in wate...
ELLEN MELOY

She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was.
MAILE MELOY

You have to train hard and be strong while staying flexible and limber, so I'm trying to find th...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

I've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college, and because we ...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
COLIN POWELL

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight o...
COLIN POWELL

Nobody cares if you're black, white, straight, gay, Christian, Jewish, whatever it may be. When ...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to ...
COLIN HANKS

I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed.
COLIN KAEPERNICK

We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally,...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks' lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to bui...
COLIN ANGLE

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, w...
COLIN POWELL

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, '...
COLIN ANGLE

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.
COLIN FIRTH

Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ...
COLIN WILSON

Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox kn...
COLIN WILSON

It is clear as you look at the team why Data Point Capital has so quickly become one of the premier ...
COLIN ANGLE

'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexte...
COLIN HANKS

I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd...
COLIN TREVORROW

I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd bett...
COLIN TREVORROW

I'm handsome, no ands, buts or ifs.
COLIN MOCHRIE

I'm a horrible business person.
COLIN TREVORROW

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
COLIN WILSON

I want everybody to be scared to death of us. I don't say that in a bellicose way. I say that in a w...
COLIN POWELL

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.
COLIN FIRTH

The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have...
COLIN POWELL

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vi...
COLIN POWELL

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this count...
COLIN POWELL

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it...
COLIN POWELL

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your...
COLIN POWELL

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
COLIN POWELL

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
COLIN POWELL

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard...
COLIN POWELL

We have a presidential candidate who's deleted emails and done things illegally and is a preside...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

It was just something - I didn't agree with what the flag was representing at this time, and you...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country. I have family, I have ...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

To me, I'm going out there focusing on competing, not worrying about cardio or anything like tha...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

The NFL is a performance-based business, so you should have to perform to earn some of your money. A...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

I'm going to speak the truth when I'm asked about it.
COLIN KAEPERNICK

Sometimes, when things are going really well, I feel like I've already seen things - it's th...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?&#...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

If you're going to do something, you're going to do it to be the best.
COLIN KAEPERNICK

I have great respect for people's right to believe what they want to believe. And I don't th...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

I'll never take the easy way out.
COLIN KAEPERNICK

There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.
COLIN KAEPERNICK

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but...
COLIN FARRELL

I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I m...
COLIN HANKS

Either move or be moved.
COLIN POWELL

Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field ...
COLIN POWELL

90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.
COLIN POWELL

Get mad, then get over it.
COLIN POWELL

It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyela...
COLIN FIRTH

Experts often possess more data than judgment.
COLIN POWELL

It is true that there are exercises that can strengthen the 'muscle' that enable us to push back the...
COLIN WILSON

A publisher is a specialized form of bank or building society, catering for customers who cannot cop...
COLIN HAYCRAFT

To be conservative requires no brains whatsoever. Cabbages, cows and conifers are conservatives, and...
COLIN WELCH

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
COLIN HAY

But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean l...
COLIN POWELL

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforti...
COLIN POWELL

The complex develops out of the simple.
COLIN WILSON

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough
COLIN POWELL

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
COLIN POWELL

Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories o...
COLIN POWELL

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failu...
COLIN POWELL

Most people don't want to change. They're comfortable and set in their ways. But in order to...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.
COLIN GREENWOOD

This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
COLIN POWELL

No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks do...
COLIN HANKS

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little ...
COLIN MOCHRIE

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that wou...
COLIN POWELL

I think that's something that's hard for this country to address, is what the real issues ar...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an acti...
COLIN TREVORROW

People don't realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approac...
COLIN POWELL

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
COLIN POWELL

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
COLIN POWELL

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.
COLIN ANGLE

I realize that men and women of the military go out and sacrifice their lives and put their selves i...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you hav...
COLIN POWELL

But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and...
COLIN FARRELL

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.
COLIN FARRELL

If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.
COLIN FARRELL

What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't car...
COLIN FARRELL

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries...
COLIN FARRELL

I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.
COLIN FARRELL

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.
COLIN FARRELL

I couldn't care less about who sees my bits... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that ...
COLIN FARRELL

You spend so much time in your head in life. And what yoga does is, it asks you to allow your head t...
COLIN FARRELL

I'm not keen on cars and motorbikes. I tried to be a biker, but it wasn't me - I bought a Ha...
COLIN FARRELL

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.
COLIN FARRELL

I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else ...
COLIN FARRELL

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and com...
COLIN FARRELL

I'm a big old romantic.
COLIN FARRELL

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, b...
COLIN FARRELL

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering question...
COLIN FARRELL

It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.
COLIN FARRELL

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't kno...
COLIN FARRELL

You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All th...
COLIN FARRELL

I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman tha...
COLIN FARRELL

I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I v...
COLIN FARRELL

I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced...
COLIN FARRELL

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
COLIN FARRELL

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, ...
COLIN POWELL

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a p...
COLIN POWELL

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winni...
COLIN POWELL

I do want to be a representative of the African community, and I want to hold myself and dress mysel...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be ...
COLIN POWELL

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you&#...
COLIN POWELL

I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and peo...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a no...
COLIN POWELL

If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity wit...
COLIN POWELL

A lot of them have families to feed, and I think it's a tragic situation where players aren'...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the...
COLIN POWELL

I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of he...
COLIN TREVORROW

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But y...
COLIN POWELL

My very clear vision for the ideal Roomba is one you never see and you never touch. Our research pri...
COLIN ANGLE

I started to watch 'Play for Today' and plays like 'Cathy Come Home,' and Kenneth Br...
COLIN SALMON

I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my seni...
COLIN ANGLE

You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda....
COLIN POWELL

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
COLIN POWELL

We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to...
COLIN TREVORROW

To me, when people say, 'Oh, you're a freak athlete,' it's bittersweet. It's a h...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it...
COLIN POWELL

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
COLIN POWELL

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standin...
COLIN WILSON

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an o...
COLIN POWELL

Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attract...
COLIN FARRELL

Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He...
COLIN MOCHRIE

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
COLIN FIRTH

There's no point apologizing about where you come from.
COLIN GREENWOOD

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.
COLIN FARRELL

I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocrac...
COLIN FIRTH

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, t...
COLIN POWELL

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nati...
COLIN POWELL

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but th...
COLIN POWELL

As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or m...
COLIN EGGLESFIELD

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will ...
COLIN ANGLE

People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far a...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people ...
COLIN MOCHRIE

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that...
COLIN POWELL

We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.
COLIN MOCHRIE

You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but...
COLIN QUINN

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
COLIN POWELL

In high school, I worked at The Video Room in Oakland, California. It had the largest selection of l...
COLIN TREVORROW

I was always kind of serious. It's nice to be able to play a complete bad boy who's the pola...
COLIN O'DONOGHUE

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
COLIN POWELL

You have to take care of the ball to win football games.
COLIN KAEPERNICK

Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We...
COLIN MOCHRIE

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
COLIN POWELL

When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you...
COLIN QUINN

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a conf...
COLIN FIRTH

This just in: Beverly Hills 90210, Cleveland Browns 3.
COLIN MOCHRIE

Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real differenc...
COLIN O'DONOGHUE

There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of sty...
COLIN MOCHRIE

I don't believe in pressure. The pressure is not being prepared for what you want to do.
COLIN KAEPERNICK

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my...
COLIN FIRTH

Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately nami...
COLIN TREVORROW

I've realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I'm going to four or fiv...
COLIN FARRELL

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't...
COLIN QUINN

I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really intere...
COLIN MORGAN

Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
COLIN FIRTH

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great opt...
COLIN FIRTH

I have a tattoo that I got in Memphis, and another I got in Dayton.
COLIN DONNELL

Victor Cruz just got his deal with Givenchy - amazing. I was so excited for him. That was amazing. S...
COLIN KAEPERNICK

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriag...
COLIN POWELL

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political s...
COLIN POWELL

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a ...
COLIN FIRTH

In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and e...
COLIN ANGLE

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.
COLIN FARRELL

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad ...
COLIN POWELL

There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.
COLIN TREVORROW

We're so surrounded by so much of this marketing and just being told on a regular basis that you...
COLIN TREVORROW

We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out.
COLIN MOCHRIE

One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's ...
COLIN FIRTH

As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always...
COLIN MOCHRIE

I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.
COLIN BAKER

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a re...
COLIN POWELL

There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about.
COLIN TREVORROW

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
COLIN WILSON

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
COLIN WILSON

We felt that if we could do it at the right price, the cleaning robot would be embraced by the masse...
COLIN ANGLE

The simplicity of the interaction is one of the most critical things.
COLIN ANGLE

It's wildly impractical to do so in any real sense.
COLIN ANGLE

There is strong synergy with consumer electronics. The core of a robot could ultimately be a cell ph...
COLIN ANGLE

This is all about giving people time back and improving their quality of life.
COLIN ANGLE

Whoever did this must have known what they were doing,
COLIN ANDREWS

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