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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The name of our country, France, still rings out like a call to freedom.
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I always thought it was a B.S. thing that they didn't show it [scalping] in other Westerns, but especially if you're going to really go with the idea that we're desecrating the bodies, and the idea is to strike fear in the hearts of other German soldiers, then we had to see what they're talking about.
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We're a huge hockey family. I took to it really quickly, and I was in love with it.
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I don't know if I necessarily fit in the action-thriller genre, but I'd love to do something where I could actually kick some butt and then tell a few jokes. That would be awesome! That would be my dream job.
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The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.
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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.
