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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Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company we work for or the politicians we vote for.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.
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In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
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Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.
