Michael Stipe Quotes

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

Michael Stipe

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GodSickGuitarTeachUpStar

When I'm clean-shaven and bathed, I look like a lawyer.

John Benjamin Hickey

LawyerLookLike

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Jean-Paul Sartre

MenMeWolvesSelfishFindSee

It is an oftentimes dangerous world, and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the nature of man to behave otherwise, and we must find leaders who can show us a better way and still maintains a balanced view.

Mike Medavoy

NatureManPeopleSweetWorldView

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ManBraveOld ManLibertyOldEven

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan... In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.

Joseph Brodsky

WordsSocietyPotentialListenOwn

I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare - about work, anyway - I always take that as a really good sign.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

WorkGoodTimeLongLong TimeRare

All my life, I've had restaurants that were affordable.

Jose Andres

LifeMy LifeAffordableWereHad

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

Dean Heller

LifeMy LifePrivilegeServingBeen

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

Colin Angle

MotherCarBestParentsNew CarNew

Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. It's out of control.

Brian Kilmeade

WomenControlGolfPlayNowTennis

I wrestle in a big way with August Wilson's work in that I at times admire it and at times feel infuriated by it, which is weirdly more influential than loving someone entirely.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

WorkFeelSomeoneLovingAdmireWay

I've been a protected child, but I moved out for further studies when I was 16, and I have travelled quite a bit by myself.

Arfi Lamba

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