Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes

Once I reached my 40s, I thought to myself that if I'm going to play live now, I need to really mean this. I can't go out and be a little bit, for one moment slovenly in my choices as a performer. I mean, these people have paid a lot of money to be here, they've been through the nightmare of getting here, starving themselves waiting for us to get on stage, so I'm going to give them what they came here for.

Michael Stipe R.E.M.

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• The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • American
  • Help
  • Freedom

• Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Want
  • Doctors
  • Washington

• I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Business
  • Learned
  • Roll

• I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Me
  • Loved
  • Realize

• I listen to music constantly while writing.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listen

• Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Moral
  • Growth

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Why
  • Career

• One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.

  

  Gary McCord
  • World
  • Different
  • Remember

• If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • Job
  • Gold

• At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Starting

• I don't think you should limit what you read.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • You
  • Limit

• Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out the War on Terror.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Our message of the day is service does not need a title.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Day
  • Service
  • Need

• 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

• You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• I signed their paper. It was a contract obligating me to spend six weeks doing farmwork in the north of Germany. If I didn’t show up at the train station tomorrow, the paper said, I would be treated as a wanted criminal and hunted down without mercy.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Mercy
  • Train
  • Germany

• It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Believe
  • You

• I think there is beauty in everything.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Think
  • Beauty

• May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

  

  Plato
  • Rich
  • Prudent
  • Portion

• My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Small
  • Understanding

• Once I reached my 40s, I thought to myself that if I'm going to play live now, I need to really mean this. I can't go out and be a little bit, for one moment slovenly in my choices as a performer. I mean, these people have paid a lot of money to be here, they've been through the nightmare of getting here, starving themselves waiting for us to get on stage, so I'm going to give them what they came here for.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Play
  • Nightmare
  • Performer