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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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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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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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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I was so hungry when I started attempting acting. Not even to be a professional. Just to find out if I could act.
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John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.
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Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet
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I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person.
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That's a point that I'm concerned about. But if you look at the core inflation rate, it's actually below wage increases.
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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.
