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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Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.
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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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He is not a lover who does not love forever.
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This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
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When my husband died in 2006, I didnt want to be Mitzi Gaynor anymore.
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Spiritual 'exercise' keeps your mind in shape the way physical exercise keeps your body in shape.
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Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
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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.
