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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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'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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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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Siberia is a state of mind.
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The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
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Desirelessness towards the seen and the unseen gives the consciousness of mastery.
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What the divine author of the Mahabharata said of his great creation is equally true of Hinduism. Whatever of substance is contained in any other religion is always to be found in Hindusim, and what is not contained in it is insubstantial or unnecessary.
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The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.
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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.
