Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.

Michael Stipe R.E.M.

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• Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.

  

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• Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

  

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• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

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• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

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• We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.

  

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• By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

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• When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.

  

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• We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

  

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• Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

  

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• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

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• I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.

  

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• But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • People
  • Country
  • American