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.Michael Stipe R.E.M.
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I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel Goldwyn -
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.
Saint Augustine -
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.
Vin Scully -
There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
Maggie Kuhn -
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.
Queen Latifah -
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
Harold Pinter
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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.
Camille Claudel -
He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
Jack Nicklaus -
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice -
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
Karl Lagerfeld -
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson
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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.
Patrick Wang -
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.
C. L. R. James -
I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
Ram Charan -
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz -
N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
Nas
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Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.
Madhur Mittal -
I'd rather shut myself in a room for six months than act in a bad movie.
Anushka Sharma -
You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.
Laura Anne Gilman -
Ever present, potent, vigilant, in the breast of man, there is that which never became a party in his guilt, never consented to a wrong deed, nor performed one, but holds itself above all sin, impeccable, immaculate, immutable, the deity of the heart, the conscience of the soul, the oracle and interpreter, the judge and executor of the divine law.
Amos Bronson Alcott -
I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
Mara Brock Akil -
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.
Michael Stipe R.E.M.