Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
I was doing that [a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
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I was a social worker most of my life while raising my two boys.
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I grew up an Indians fan my entire life. I was never really 'against' the Yankees, but I knew what they were capable of.
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I have a little half-Asian butt, and the more I work out, the more I try to get it bigger, it's just going to get flatter and harder.
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go off for bad light? Against this lot? Are you being serious?
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I was doing that [a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.
