Melissa Etheridge Quotes
There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine.
Quotes to Explore
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
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Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.
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The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
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A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.
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It's frustrating always being compared to Britney because we are two very different artists... We both dance and sing but people have not yet had enough time to realise that there is a huge difference between us. If she wants to go and do something, I'll want to do the opposite.
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A lot of people think about food as fuel, where you need to get nutrients in your body.
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There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine.
