Melissa Etheridge Quotes
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.
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One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.
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I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.
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I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.
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Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.
