Melissa Etheridge Quotes
I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.
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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
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Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.
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Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.
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I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple. Jesus didn't go around condemning people.
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I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
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I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.
