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Michael Stipe

"I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical."

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"I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical."

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"We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet."

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"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet."

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"On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'"

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"I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked."

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"Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times."

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"If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune."

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"A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings."

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"If you feel you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you."

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"I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet."

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"When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long."

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"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."
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"But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt."
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"We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring."
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"Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever."
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"So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day."
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"There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell."
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"We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month."
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"I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery."
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"Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music."
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"We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago."
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