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.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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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.
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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.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
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If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.
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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.
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I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.
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We've never been political, and our fans like us that way. Music is supposed to be fun. But we do drop a positive message.
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Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.
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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.
