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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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.
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The militia had the same equipment as the military to protect them against the tyrannical government. It's more important today than ever that we uphold our Second Amendment.
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I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time.
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And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.
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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.
