Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
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I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.
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Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.
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Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.
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To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.
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Of course, recognising our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead; and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.
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Two men say they’re Jesus, one of them must be wrong.
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Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.
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The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.
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What's so good about goodbye?All it does is make you cry.Well, if leaving causes grieving,And depart can break you heart,Tell me (what's so good about it)I could have done without it.What's so good about goodbye?
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Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.
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The only kind of water that should fly through the air is rain.
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If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.
