Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
I went through this difficult time [in the 1984] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my mind. That's when the bulimia kicked in. And that's when I got really freaky.
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
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The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
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New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.
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I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
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Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
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Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
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One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.
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Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes you think that it is coming together.
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I went through this difficult time [in the 1984] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my mind. That's when the bulimia kicked in. And that's when I got really freaky.
