Melissa Etheridge Quotes
When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.
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The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.
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Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program.
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These men traveling down to the City in the morning, reading their newspapers or staring at advertisements above the opposite seats, they have no doubt of who they are. Inscribe on the placard in place of the advertisement for corn-plasters, Elliot's lines:
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If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day.
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The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.
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To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
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I could have 10 kids or be boxing until I'm 40.
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I'm quite scrutinous when it comes to who I put myself in the room with.
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As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.
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I am the best rock drummer on the planet.
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I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
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I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month then whatever.
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When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting.
