Melissa Etheridge Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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I always love listening to Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my favorite albums.
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I love funk and soul and Motown.
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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
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To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a 'Terrible Towel.'
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Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
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Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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My advice for young people is, study what you love and intern in what you want to do. And I think it's okay to pivot as many times as you need to.
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People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
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No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.
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If stores and vendors know there is a demand for organic products, they will make them. The more they make, the more the cost comes down.
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We have a choice every day between fear and love.
