Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

Michael Stipe R.E.M.

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• Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Space
  • Choices
  • Page

• In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Different
  • You
  • Film

• Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Web
  • Applications

• We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • People
  • May
  • True

• I was lucky to be with Johnny... he taught me a lot about fame.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Fame

• Mister Cee's a legend, man.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Man
  • Legend
  • Mister

• It all started when I was 4. I was watching a lot of 'The Little Mermaid,' and I loved that movie. I was going around the house singing - I wanted to be on Disney and everything; I wanted to be a princess.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Movie
  • House
  • Singing

• If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Men
  • Play
  • Church

• I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • You
  • Grateful

• Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Good
  • Never
  • Influence

• I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Life
  • Moral
  • My Life

• I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • Name
  • Tough

• I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Good
  • Performance

• I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • College
  • Years
  • Gone

• I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Love
  • Game
  • Hockey

• I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Never

• I was born with an evil face.

  

  Barry Sloane
  • Evil
  • Born
  • Face

• Anything you want to know, you go to Quora and get it. And at the same time, give people a platform that is easy to use for sharing the knowledge.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• The one area where I'll say that Hendrix is underrated was his ability to use chord melodies. He used different inversions of chords and was able to make a three-piece band sound absolutely huge. From the moment Hendrix and the Experience came on the scene, power trios had their work cut out for them.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Band
  • Ability
  • Able

• When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Band
  • Attitude
  • Clothes

• I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!

  

  Ice T
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Car

• I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Family
  • Singing
  • Kitchen

• When I started writing, I was reading people such as Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, who did 'Jurassic Park,' which is possibly the most action-filled book you'll read, apart from mine, and I said to myself, 'Why aren't these guys doing big-scale action like you would see in a movie?'

  

  Matthew Reilly
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Band