Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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I'm an entrepreneur.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
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The conditions were terrible. The farmworkers were only earning about 70 cents an hour at that time - 90 cents was the highest wage that they were earning. They didn't have toilets in the fields; they didn't have cold drinking water. They didn't have rest periods. People worked from sunup to sundown. It was really atrocious.
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There's nothing better than renting a small, 50-seat theater in L.A. and just getting up there.
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As a stylist, it is important for me to always steer my clients in the right direction and to push them when I feel it is necessary.
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But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.
