Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
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I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'
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I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my 'Happy People' record. She said that she thought it represented the sprit of her husband. The license is from California. I get inspired every time I look at it.
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I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost.
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I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.
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My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.
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Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
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I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.
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To me, style is consistency.
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Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.
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Being called a musical genius was a cross to bear. Genius is a big word. But if you have to live up to something, you might as well live up to that.
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You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy!... O running stream of sparkling joy To be a soaring human boy!
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Under the attentiveness was fear, and something else. Anger, hate-the instinctive rejection of an intolerable truth.
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I still fall asleep with the TV on, because I'm used to falling asleep with people yelling 'Action!' and 'Cut!'
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I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand.
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I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.
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Issues of energy, climate change, nuclear arms control and non-proliferation are all big deals. These are problems that we have to get right globally, not just nationally, and there are big benefits in cooperating, in terms of sharing costs, in terms of sharing risks, in terms of propagating the best answers.
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I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.
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I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.
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I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.
