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.
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All mankind love a lover.
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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.
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I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
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I'm a lover of songs.
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I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
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I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
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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.
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
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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.
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We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'
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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.
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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.
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My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.
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Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?
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And I laughed so hard I think I died
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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.
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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.
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We aren't going to try and pretend to know where rates are headed, where the market is headed or what stocks will shine. That said, we do believe that the dominant equity strategy has begun to shift, and there are more and better foreign equities to invest in. To have a perfect asset allocation strategy, you need more exposure to foreign stocks.
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Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go. As our meetings grew more frequent, I felt not so much that I had met someone new as that I had chanced upon a dear old friend.
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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.
