Melissa Etheridge Quotes

There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.

Melissa Etheridge

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• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Pain
  • Sad
  • Sadness

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Support

• On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Life
  • Violence

• I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Spring

• I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Country
  • West
  • Puppet

• If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • You
  • Religious
  • Problems

• I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Artist
  • Confidence
  • Pen

• I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Done
  • May
  • Think

• At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Times
  • U.S.
  • Some

• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• Harry Dresden: I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Great
  • Real
  • Superhero

• I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

  

  John Graham Mellor The 101ers
  • Dangerous
  • Don't Care

• I wish my mother could have seen the America we’re going to build together. An America, where if you do your part, you reap the rewards. Where we don’t leave anyone out, or anyone behind. An America where a father can tell his daughter: yes, you can be anything you want to be. Even President of the United States.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America
  • Together
  • Mother

• The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • Good
  • Style
  • Grit

• Acting is all about relating to the people on stage with you, even in plays that break the fourth wall. Clowning, for the most part, is the opposite. If somebody in the audience sneezes, I can count on it: I don't even have to look at Shiner; he'll have his handkerchief out. It's all about all of us in the room together.

  

  Bill Irwin
  • People
  • Together
  • Wall

• There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Life
  • Love
  • Fear