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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So breaks the sun earth's rugged chains, Wherein rude winter bound her veins; So grows both stream and source of price, That lately fettered were with ice. So naked trees get crispèd heads, And coloured coats the roughest meads, And all get vigour, youth and spright, That are but looked on by his light.
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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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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
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You ask every conceivable question after Sept. 11 in terms of what more could have been done, what could have been done differently. My impression from working on these cases and investigations for almost nine years was that an awful lot of people were working over time to connect dots.
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Social Security is a tax.
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It is, in other words, time for a national oil change. That is apparent to anyone who has looked at our national dipstick.
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Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.
