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.

Melissa Etheridge

• Running
• Knows
• Tape
• Stillness

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• People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Want
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• Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Chance
  • Year
  • Birthday

• I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Care
  • First
  • Debate

• Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • World
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• Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Always
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• I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Artist
  • Enough
  • Often

• 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.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Time
  • Live
  • Listening

• Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Management
  • Productivity

• Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Hardest
  • Begin
  • Goodly

• I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Long
  • Character
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • World
  • Know
  • Die

• 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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Single

• I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • People
  • 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.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Work
  • Important
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Community

• The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Music
  • History
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• You know what? I did a lot of things that were deliberate, and they all backfired. I was trying desperately to become Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler, and it did not work for me. I took a lot of leaps that I shouldn't have, traditionally speaking. I paid the price for that. I was not as hire-able for a while. But then I just gave all that up.

  

  Dax Shepard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera, you know, you name it.

  

  Dave Gibbons

• I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it was the first of the books I read as a writer on 'Game of Thrones,' so all I could do is think, 'We're going to have to shift that,' 'We won't be able to afford that,' or 'That's a great scene.'

  

  Bryan Cogman
  • Great
  • Game
  • Dance

• Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Reader
  • Creator
  • Invisible

• It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Knows
  • Thing

• We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Stupid
  • Knows
  • Silly

• 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.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Running
  • Knows
  • Tape