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.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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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.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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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.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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One of my random skills is I have a very strong memory for dialogue and moments, and I don't know why.
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The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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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.
