Melissa Etheridge Quotes
There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.
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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
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Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
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You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up.
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I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.
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We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.
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Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.
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The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.
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My dad sent me a clipping about the self-defence militias in Mexico. Immediately, when I read it, I knew I wanted to create a parallel story about vigilantes on both sides of the border.
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From what I've seen, you either get grounded in that kind of positive thinking early on in life or you don't. Establishing priorities and using your time well aren't things you can pick up at the Harvard Business School. Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.
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Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
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Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.
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The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous.
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There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.
