Melissa Etheridge Quotes

The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.

Melissa Etheridge

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• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Power
  • Career
  • Thought

• We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Real
  • Career
  • Myself

• I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Career
  • Independent
  • Blessed

• I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Career

• T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Time
  • Career
  • Me

• I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Career
  • Hard
  • Stuff

• As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Career
  • Dream
  • Winning

• I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Never

• My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Important
  • Love
  • She

• We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.

  

  Jack Black
  • Music
  • Career
  • Dark

• Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Time
  • Career
  • Feeling

• I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Career
  • Look
  • Talking

• Initially, I wanted to do films with A-list actors when I was struggling. I was hoping that I could also get that platform where I'm launched with Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan or Aamir Khan... and with them my career could also start, but it didn't happen. And then came 'Queen.'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Career
  • Start
  • Queen

• When I started my career, I saw that everybody was using Twitter.

  

  Maluma
  • Career
  • Twitter
  • saw

• I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He's a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.

  

  Betty White
  • Career
  • Dog

• The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Life
  • Live
  • Book

• I spent a lot of time in the White House in the public areas where reporters are allowed to go, but I spoke to people about the private quarters as well. Some of the things I learned were small, novelistic details. For example, the fact that there were still pet stains on the carpets from the Bush cats when the Obamas moved in.

  

  Jodi Kantor
  • People
  • Time
  • House

• There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's terrific on his show. But I know Louis would play a fantastic dramatic role in something, too. He just needs somebody to grab him and say, 'Come in here and do this.'

  

  Denis Leary
  • Great

• We really do have to get at the underlying question of health-care costs.

  

  Angela Braly
  • Question
  • Health

• When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Great
  • Thought

• The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Career
  • Having Children