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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The idea that competition is pointless is really something that speaks to me, especially in America where competition is really prominent and very overwhelming, and it doesn't bring the best out in you because what's going to push you is to bring others down.
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Thunder only happens when it's raining.
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When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.
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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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I can feel the thunder underneath my feet
