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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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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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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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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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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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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As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.
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My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.
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Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.
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And he wanted a wife. He wanted to raise children. He wanted to prove that goodness wasn’t beaten into children, that fear was not the fount from which virtue flowed. He wanted to be able to gather his family in his arms and know that not one of them dreaded the sight of him, or felt the need to lie to him in order to have his love.
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Humankind is an insignificant part of existence.
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It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..
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You're just constantly battling this thing that is telling you, 'I don't think I can do it.' I think we all have it. When you're fresh and alert, you can easily put those doubts down. But when you're tired, they easily come up to the surface.
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I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny."
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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In a modern world where a majority of women say, 'I don't need you, I've got my money, I've got my stuff,' I say, 'I desperately need men.' My whole album is a tribute to men. It takes a man in me to tell you that I'm on my knees for men.
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When I say I don't get involved in politics, I merely mean that I don't talk to reporters about 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.
