Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
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Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
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I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
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I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.
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I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.
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Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.
