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.
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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
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
I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
Harold Prince
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
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
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
Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
Vikas Swarup
Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.
Ian Bremmer
While he lived, entire worlds weren't enough to contain him. Now six good feet of earth are sufficient.
Bill Willingham
You can only go forward by making mistakes.
Alexander McQueen
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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.