Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes

I started lip-synching with "Losing My Religion." There were a few horrendous mistakes we made, but I own those mistakes. I'm embarrassed by them. I always say when I look back at anything I've ever done, it's with equal dollops of humiliation and triumphant glory.

Michael Stipe R.E.M.

• Mistakes
• Glory
• Losing My Religion

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• In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.

  

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• I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.

  

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• Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

  

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• If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.

  

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• I started lip-synching with "Losing My Religion." There were a few horrendous mistakes we made, but I own those mistakes. I'm embarrassed by them. I always say when I look back at anything I've ever done, it's with equal dollops of humiliation and triumphant glory.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Mistakes
  • Glory
  • Losing My Religion