Melissa Etheridge Quotes
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I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.
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When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work.
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In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.
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Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.
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Things go in cycles. It's like fashion, like flares go out then skinny jeans come in, people want something fresh. It's the strongest ever urban scene at the moment and I hope it can progress and keep getting stronger and be the base for something larger.
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Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.
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Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.
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My beef was with essentially being a product. I didn't want to be a product, so I tried to get fired, but they didn't fire me, which was weird.
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I think the most important feeling in the world is friendship. The friendship between Michiru and Haruka is so strong, that it becomes love.
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Twitter is incredibly useful. It's a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text. Above all else, this change in the nature of engagement is fascinating for me as a writer.
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All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.
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Her experience had taught her that people who insisted on having others recognize their outstanding qualities usually didn’t have any.
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Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
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In a fight, you don't need much context for drama. You watch a fight, and that's it.
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We are partners to leading organizations across industries and have delivered marquee and transformational programs.
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Karaoke was my family's happy secret. In those early years in America, like many immigrants, my parents struggled with poverty and loneliness, but they also built provisional families, and inside our bubble there was joy, understanding, an intimate language I could never translate - and above all there was song.
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It means I don't have much depth of vision.
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If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.
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The drones are really interesting - how have the troops withdrawn from Afghanistan? Because we've upped the drone strikes and most of the country doesn't even really know what that means or who we're killing or... it's such a new weapon that we don't know what the long term impacts of that kind of military action is going to be.
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I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.
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I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.
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Chemotherapy tests your sanity.
