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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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'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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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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I might not be in a relationship anymore, but I don't believe that people should have to lie to themselves just to make somebody else feel good.
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If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work.
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I pay a lot of attention to the people I let surround me. I learn something from those people and from everyone - from other musicians, from people on the street.
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I think I'd like to play more happy roles because I haven't done too many of those. I think I'd like to do an action film; something with a harness would be fun.
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The United States is already Mexico's largest trading partner.
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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.
