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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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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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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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 swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.
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I'm a typical guy. Driving cars and speed are really fun.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.
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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.
Michael Stipe R.E.M.