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 would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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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 vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.
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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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I would love to have played Gollum.
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I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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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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Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.
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Scientists want full proof under laboratory conditions. And the answer is very simple: When Im put under pressure, I cant perform. Even the phenomenon Im most known for. When Im on stage, Im not under pressure and it happens. In other important places, it happens. But in a laboratory where I really want it to happen, its very hard for me.
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Batman is basically an ordinary guy who had something tragic happen to him when he was young.
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The perception of beauty is a moral test.
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We have a choice every day between fear and love.
