Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.
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I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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I don't know how many kids I am going to have, but definitely I am one of those women who wants to have family and kids.
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When I was younger, everyone thought I was Courteney Cox.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which Dean Swift, in his epitaph on the affluent and profligate Colonel Chartres, announces the small esteem of wealth in the eyes of God, from the fact of His thus lavishing it upon the meanest and basest of His creatures?
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I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
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We're kind of an international phenomenon.
