Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
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I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!
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I buy food and gasoline - that's it.
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I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.
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I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.
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In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.
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'Poly' means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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And the sad act like lepersThey stick to the shadowsThey long to ring bells of warningTo tell of their comingSo that the pure can shut their doors.
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To the new International that is now in the irreversible process of preparation we can contribute the ideas of worldwide organization and the world state; the English can suggest the idea of worldwide exploitation and trusts; the French can offer nothing. ...
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An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
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The big thing I noticed from High-A to Double-A is that when you have an advantage count as a hitter, you're not going to get as many fastballs. Adjusting to the 2-0 changeup, that 3-1 off-speed pitch - things like that. I think my swing can stay the same; I just was getting myself out.
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Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.
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One day it dawned on her that life was not going to happen some time in the future. She realized that her happiness was right here and now.
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Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.
