Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.
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To truly find yourself, touch as many lives as possible!
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Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.
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I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.
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I don't want to be on a soapbox, but I feel like a lot of documentary filmmakers are part of the ancient tradition of writing down notes, of saying, 'Hey people, hey people!'
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So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.
