Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
I stopped taking drugs [in 1983]. There were a lot of things that led up to it. One thing was that a lover died. An ex of mine died in a car wreck and I was really trashed when I found out about it and I couldn't cry. I woke up the next morning and I said, "That's it," so I quit then. It was horrible.Michael Stipe R.E.M.
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All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.
K. Flay -
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
L. Ron Hubbard -
I'm a lover of songs.
Vince Clarke Depeche Mode -
I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
Mahmoud Darwish
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The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.
Chris Martin Coldplay -
If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.
Octavian Paler -
In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'
Alan Alda -
I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
Al Pacino
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I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
Andrew Solomon -
My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.
Alex Trebek -
Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?
Don McLean -
And I laughed so hard I think I died
Jon Bon Jovi -
Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.
Oscar Wilde -
The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.
Elizabeth Fry
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Ketika kita masih kecil dan setelah kita lanjut usia, kita sangat tergantung kepada orang-orang lain. Di antara masa itu, kita merasa bisa melakukan segala sesuatu tanpa bantuan orang lain, sehingga menganggap perhatian sesama tidak penting. Padahal dalam tahap ini perlu sekali bagi kita untuk memelihara cinta kasih yang mendalam antar sesama manusia.
Dalai Lama -
People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
James Brown -
I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.
Tony Kushner -
The ability to fight isnt a one-size fits all; everybody is different.
Melissa McBride -
I stopped taking drugs [in 1983]. There were a lot of things that led up to it. One thing was that a lover died. An ex of mine died in a car wreck and I was really trashed when I found out about it and I couldn't cry. I woke up the next morning and I said, "That's it," so I quit then. It was horrible.
Michael Stipe R.E.M.