Melissa Etheridge Quotes

Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.

Melissa Etheridge

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• We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.

  

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• In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

  

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• The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.

  

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• The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

  

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• I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.

  

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• All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'

  

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• I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

  

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• We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

  

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• I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

  

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• When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.

  

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• Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

  

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• When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work.

  

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• After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they call shariah.

  

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• Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Cancer
  • Excuse
  • Ultimate