Michael Stipe
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Deciding what I wanted to do at 15 and, against all odds, doing it.
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Kyoto, when Tony Blair gave me the opportunity to start the first legislative framework for climate change.
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To learn to relax and enjoy it.
Perfume for the wife, and the Jaguars. They were always secondhand. I have had every kind except the E-Type.
My mother, because I didn’t appreciate how proud she was of me being deputy prime minister. She ended up doing more press than me, and I was too sensitive and reacted.
As an aggressive bugger.
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