Melissa Etheridge Quotes
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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First of all, I don't like to speak about austerity. I'd prefer to speak of fiscal discipline. Fiscal discipline, in the end, amounts to austerity if it is not accompanied by other policies.
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You will not have any moment of silence.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Extremes, though, are always risky and ordinarily downright baneful, and the dangers of prolonged contact with any poetry that seems to exceed what we most familiarly know of the first-class are formidable.
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We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day.
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I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through.
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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.
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Never focus on what you can’t do - only imagine everything you could.
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Bands are like relationships, you know. You are kind of in a relationship with a bunch of people at one time, but this feels like a relationship that is actually working.
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The only certainty is the certainty of what they leave behind: thunder in August, heart-crushing love affairs with the light, no money. How warm air rises from the valleys at noon and comes down cool from the high country as the sun goes down. How the ground beneath your feet shapes your muscles. How where you live—the locale—makes you who you are.
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Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.
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I can feel the thunder underneath my feet
