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.
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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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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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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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Great books are rare.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
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I spoke to Geoff Johns a lot. We went back and forth, and found a way to bring up the best qualities in his personality and psychology and also fill a niche in Gotham that we've never seen. It became about is there a way to really plant this hero in Gotham and say this is someone you haven't seen before - both in terms of who they are as a person and who they are as a hero.
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You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.
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The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive.
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Heartbreak is the best motivation.
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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.
