Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.
Quotes to Explore
-
Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
-
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
-
Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
-
When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.
-
The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
-
For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
-
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
-
My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
-
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
-
If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
-
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
-
The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
-
I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
-
If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
-
I think we respond well when we do something well.
-
I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
-
I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.
-
God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
-
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
-
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
-
I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how they look, and they don't know how you will describe them.
-
How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?
-
I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.
