Melissa Etheridge Quotes

My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.

Melissa Etheridge

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• If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Freedom

• I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

  

  Action Bronson
  • You
  • Like
  • Without

• You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • You
  • Body
  • Force

• I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Party
  • Violence
  • Deep

• You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • People
  • You
  • Yourself

• You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

  

  Ed Harris
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Often

• If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • America
  • Future
  • Risk

• Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • See
  • Everything
  • Got

• Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Really
  • Active
  • Percent

• Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Oppressed

• I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Different
  • Family
  • American

• I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Measure
  • Task

• You have to follow that next step.

  

  Laura Moser
  • You
  • Step
  • Follow

• Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Music
  • Literature

• Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Wrong
  • Very
  • Rare

• Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Good
  • Government
  • System

• When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Food
  • Diet

• I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Up
  • Women
  • Passion

• I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.'

  

  James Van Allen
  • Work
  • Together
  • Army

• My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner.

  

  Danny Aiello
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Father

• On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• 'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it when I was 8, and I'm still an avid viewer.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Love
  • Science
  • Doctor

• My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Friends
  • Rock Stardom