Melissa Etheridge Quotes
I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.Melissa Etheridge
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
Rachel Platten -
I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
Harold Ramis -
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
Ram Kapoor -
One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
Lata Mangeshkar -
When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
Pat Gillick
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
Victoria Pendleton -
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
Barbara Smith -
Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
Patrick Kavanagh -
Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
Ja Rule -
When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
Salman Rushdie -
We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.
Ian Somerhalder
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I'm not good at accepting help.
Patricia Heaton -
You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
Rachel Bilson -
I have only one counsel for you - be master.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The heart is the best reflective thinker.
Wendell Phillips -
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
Joanne Rowling -
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.
Randy Hultgren
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People see my modelling and see me getting papped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much TV or whatever.
Abbey Clancy -
I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.
Donnie Yen -
You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
Ray Bradbury -
I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
Bernard Baruch -
I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.
Melissa Etheridge