Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.
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Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
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For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.
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I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
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Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.
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Telecom was the golden goose which laid the golden egg. The Supreme Court ensured that the golden goose will never lay golden egg again for a little while.
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I charged into something which might have been a tree, but was not-being, in point of fact, Jeeves.
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Shoes are a big thing for me, just because it's hard to find shoes that fit me correctly.
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A smaller-size party and parliamentary membership does not necessarily equate to lesser demands; if anything, the opposite can be the case.
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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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It takes local pastors to say, 'we're not going to take it. Be strong.
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Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.
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I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.
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The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.
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Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.
