Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.
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I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
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The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
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Countries aren't built by boring people.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
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There are signs jobs will be plentiful in the future, if we train and prepare for it. That means investing in technology, innovation, and, as much as Republicans will hate to hear this, renewable energy.
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I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.
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People are saying fashion week is no longer just a press event, it has become a shopping event because of us.
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I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
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I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual.
