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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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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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
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The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
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All teems with symbol; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another.
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I think it's important to be flexible and free, and you can't be free and spontaneous if you don't know what you're doing.
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I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken.
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It is exciting. It is real meaningful if you are in Victory Lane with it. That is what we want to do. There are only a handful of cars that have that kind of meaning to it. Richard's car is one of them. But it isn't going to mean nearly as much unless you do something with it.
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I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.
