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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Bulk collection of phone records didn't find or stop the Tsarnaev brothers from the massacre in Boston. In fact, one might argue that all of the money spent on bulk collection takes money away from human analysts that might have noticed the older brother's trip to become radicalized in Chechnya.
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I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
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It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. But those two things actually are significantly interrelated.
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For more than three months, I had been president and primary owner of Spellman Investigations, and I can say with complete certainty that I had more power in this office as an underling. My title, it seemed, was purely decorative. I was captain of an unfashionable and sinking ship.
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Magazines tell you you should be a size zero. Excuse me I don't want to be a zero about anything.
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Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.
