Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
I'm kind of quoting Thurston [Moore] and Kim [Gordon] in saying that about not being great with addicts, because they are the ones who said it to me.Michael Stipe R.E.M.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
Owen Arthur -
When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
Magic Johnson -
A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
Tate Donovan -
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai -
I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
Jack Buck -
I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
Kate Adie
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
Ursula Burns -
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
B. B. King -
Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
Brown Campbell -
Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
Imran Amed -
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
Adam Grant
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
Taylor Dane -
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes -
It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
Damien Hirst -
My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
Zubin Mehta
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As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.
Ann Romney -
Just being with dogs, I learned their ways and began to appreciate things from their point of view.
Cesar Millan -
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.
George Muller -
I'm kind of quoting Thurston [Moore] and Kim [Gordon] in saying that about not being great with addicts, because they are the ones who said it to me.
Michael Stipe R.E.M.