Melissa Etheridge Quotes

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

Melissa Etheridge

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• Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Women
  • Song
  • Imagination

• 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
  • Percent
  • Active

• 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

• I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Real
  • Normal
  • Straight

• 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

• Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.

  

  John Bright
  • Alone

• He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack,For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Friends

• I grew up in Edinburgh, but my dad's from Glasgow, and my mum's from Chingford in Essex, and I spent time in Ireland, too, so I was always somebody who absorbed accents. I would come back from visits, very much to the annoyance of friends and family, with an accent based on where I'd been.

  

  Chloe Pirrie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Work
  • Great
  • Knowledge

• It's always nice when someone comes up to you and tells you they enjoy the show. At least they're not coming up and saying how much they hate it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Nice

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

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Friends
  • Rock Stardom