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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• I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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  • Operation
  • Judaism

• I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Think
  • Birth

• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
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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.

  

  Lamar Alexander
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• Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

  

  Natalie Merchant
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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.

  

  Walter O'Brien
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• I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
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• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
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  • Go

• You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Best
  • Always
  • Do Your Best

• Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Real
  • Know
  • Behind

• Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
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  • Path

• I'm an outsider.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Outsider

• The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Democracy

• Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Human
  • Natural
  • Potential

• I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

  

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  • Mind
  • Song

• There is only one me.

  

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  • Me
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• I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.

  

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• I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain, too, and both of us have many friends there.

  

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• To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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  • Real
  • Need

• The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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  • Stop
  • Notion

• God is waiting and anxious to pour out blessings, and glory, and honor, and exaltation upon his people, far more than we have ever received, and far more than we are capable of receiving; and the only reason we have not received it long ago is because there was no place found for it.

  

  Erastus Snow
  • Reason
  • Honor
  • Glory

• There isn't a clear-cut way to be a parent. We will all make mistakes.

  

  Haylie Duff
  • Way
  • Mistakes

• 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