Melissa Etheridge Quotes
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
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My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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I sign on to any project because of the director: because they won't change, and you've got to feel confident that you're in good hands, in their vision.
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I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?
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Hope is the poor man's bread.
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I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.
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Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
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You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.
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My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.
