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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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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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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No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
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My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
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You do not need 435 people playing commander-in-chief.
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There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
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Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.
