Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes

Love, love will be my strongest weapon.

Michael Stipe R.E.M.

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• I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Never
  • Consciousness

• I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• Fitzgerald was a modernist.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Fitzgerald
  • Modernist

• Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Good
  • Job
  • Know

• The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Career
  • Me

• Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Winter
  • Focused
  • Classic

• I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Style
  • Intimidating
  • Demanding

• You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Kind

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Up
  • Win
  • Vote

• The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Up
  • Control
  • Audience

• I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Kind
  • Training
  • Yoga

• I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Definitely

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Book
  • Engagement

• A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Interesting
  • Revolution

• In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Time
  • Actor
  • Camera

• My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • World
  • Parents
  • Eyes

• There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Love
  • Know

• No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Length without breadth is like a self-contained tributary having no outward flow to the ocean. Stagnant, still and stale, it lacks both life and freshness. In order to live creatively and meaningfully, our self-concern must be wedded to other concerns.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Humanity
  • Concerns
  • Confines

• Anything that I've put my name to and my face to and put my time into, is something that I'm clearly passionate about, or I wouldn't be there.

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Name
  • Passionate

• We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that may be hidden behind a smile, of the secret cares, struggles, and worries that shorten life and leave their mark in hair prematurely whitened, and a character changed and almost recreated in a few days. Let us not dare to add to the burden of another the pain of our judgment.

  

  William George Jordan
  • Character
  • Struggle
  • Changed

• Love, love will be my strongest weapon.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Love
  • Weapon