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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I'd like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs, so they have to get it through a doctor, not just some gangsters who sell it under the table. Let's legalize drugs like they did in Amsterdam. No one's hiding or sneaking around corners to get it. They go to a doctor to get it.
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Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy of its nervous system; indeed, only coarse natures fail to discern the natural distinction of the cat.
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Once the ISIS threat has been reduced or eliminated, I think we can turn our attention directly to stabilizing the situation in Syria. We're hopeful that we can prevent a continuation of the civil war and that we can bring the parties to the table to begin the process of political discussions.
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A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious, such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.
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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.
