Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

Michael Stipe R.E.M.

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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.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Light
  • Show
  • Darkness

• Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Trying
  • True
  • Hand

• 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.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Deep

• In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

  

  Frances E. Willard
  • Fashion
  • Thought
  • Sympathy

• China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • China
  • Cyber

• We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Future
  • Architecture

• 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.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Real
  • Giving
  • Support

• I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

  

  Larry Niven
  • People
  • Life
  • Myself

• You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • You
  • Treat

• Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

  

  Ovid
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Minds

• 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!

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Problem

• I buy food and gasoline - that's it.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Food
  • Buy
  • Gasoline

• I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • World
  • Men
  • Fashion

• If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Want
  • Win
  • Cards

• 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.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Cold

• 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.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • God

• 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.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Sun

• 'Poly' means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.

  

  Kinky Friedman

• Higher capital requirements increase bank costs, and at least some of those costs will be passed along to bank customers and shareholders. But in the longer term, stronger prudential requirements for large banking firms will produce more sustainable credit availability and economic growth.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Growth

• Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It's how we all start out - male, female, white or minority.

  

  Lesli Linka Glatter
  • Today

• I bring a poofy gray down jacket with me wherever I go. It's meant for winter, but I use it most in the summer, when everyone cranks up the air-conditioning.

  

  Leslie Mann
  • Summer
  • Winter
  • Jackets

• We think there's a reason for everything, as if life was supposed to make sense. It's not exactly math. People aren't numbers. Everybody knows life doesn't make any sense at all, so we just better deal with the whole mess. Have a beer. Have a cup of coffee. Have a piece of cake. Go out to a movie. Enjoy the Popcorn.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Movie
  • Reason
  • Enjoy

• Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president.

  

  James T. Walsh
  • People
  • Support
  • Party

• Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.