Melissa Etheridge Quotes

Cancer Is an opportunity to sit down and look into yourself and find the answers. Yes, it's serious, but it's not the end-all.

Melissa Etheridge

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• My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Think
  • Know
  • Voice

• Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Lead
  • Street
  • Warm

• I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Never
  • Mission
  • Pilot

• In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Black
  • Me
  • Player

• When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • People
  • Character
  • Chance

• 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.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • Society
  • Party

• 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.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Except for a handful of banks that just keep a handful of their loans in portfolio, on their balance sheet, every other loan that's originated in the United States - whether from a bank, mortgage company, mortgage broker - is sold into the secondary market.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Balance
  • Company
  • Bank

• 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.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Life
  • World
  • Pretty

• Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I grew up with adored LSU, including my mom. But I chose to come to Mississippi State because I wanted to start a new tradition instead of perpetuating an established one.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Work
  • Age
  • Me

• You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.

  

  Dan Severson
  • America
  • Christian
  • Liberty

• The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Hunting
  • Duck

• One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Hope
  • Curiosity

• I believe in nourishment and having a balanced diet. I avoid bingeing and try and eat healthy, especially lots of amla, and drink lots and lots of water.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Believe
  • Water
  • Healthy

• Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • She
  • Together
  • Chance

• I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

  

  David Bailey
  • Time
  • Women

• For generations, Americans who aren't rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots - want a country where people who work hard can succeed, where the same rules apply to everyone. They expect to have their own shot at getting rich. But increasingly, they are seeing that the game is rigged.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Will

• I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Day
  • Loved

• Cancer Is an opportunity to sit down and look into yourself and find the answers. Yes, it's serious, but it's not the end-all.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Opportunity
  • Serious
  • Cancer