Melissa Etheridge Quotes

When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.

Melissa Etheridge

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• If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.

  

  Taylor Kinney
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  • Long
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• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Religion
  • Belief

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Women
  • Interesting

• Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Always
  • Island
  • Hawaii

• Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Believe
  • Him
  • Recognized

• It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Life
  • Real
  • Simple

• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Speak

• I think most music provides the same messages - whether it be 'I'm unhappy' or 'I love a girl.' I just liked the package of rap music.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Unhappy

• If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

  

  B. B. King
  • Me
  • Single
  • Woman

• I don't think that everything that's popular is necessarily right for every body and so I'd like for girls to be confident enough to make the right choice for themselves and to look unique.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Body
  • Unique
  • Popular

• I don't have a real attraction or interest to national politics, so I want to see Republicans win across the board in the state of Arizona, because those policies of lower taxes and lighter regulation and strong foreign policy are important to me.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Important
  • Real
  • Strong

• I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I love wrapping everyone's gifts in hand-painted wallpaper sheets, which gives the gift extra love.

  

  Kelly Wearstler
  • People
  • Life
  • Mind

• DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing? RITTER: If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it.

  

  Doris Day
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Men

• I have enough money to satisfy myself for a lifetime.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Money
  • Enough
  • Lifetime

• I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Write
  • Injustice

• I like to have a lot of fun. I just don't see myself as being sexy. It's more sass - more attitude - than sex.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Fun
  • Sex
  • Attitude

• Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!

  

  Bette Midler
  • Up
  • Soul
  • City

• Listen, you've got two ears and one mouth, they've got the majority so shut up.

  

  Paul Colman Newsboys
  • Listen
  • Mouth
  • Shut Up

• I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity Nor had I time to love: but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.

  

  Bob Mould Hüsker Dü
  • Artist
  • Generation
  • Grew Up

• I grew up on rap and hip-hop and fell into dance music. Hip-hop died down, and I moved more into dance music, disco and house. It feels very natural. My rhythm growing up on hip-hop and R&B was cool, fresh, and I feel comfortable with it.

  

  Nomi Ruiz
  • Comfortable
  • Hip Hop
  • Grew Up

• My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Music
  • Change
  • Songs

• When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Songs
  • Grew Up
  • Gay People