Melissa Etheridge Quotes
I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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I love the free spirit in London.
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Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
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I always do my own stunts, as much as possible. I'm a little stubborn about it.
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Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.
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I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.
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In my small, coastal New England town, an hour outside New York, I know many people who have dealt with cancer. I can reel off the names of at least 15 women I know, all in their 40s.
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We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.
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I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.
