Melissa Etheridge Quotes
Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.
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I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.
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If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.
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Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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I've got to be honest and say that, growing up, I wasn't a big sports guy, but I love the camaraderie. I just love people getting together, fighting for a team and getting super-emotional about it.
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Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
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I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy.
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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
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But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill.I want to live and I want to love.I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of.
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The market always, in theory at least, looks ahead. And it's always trying to take in every bit of information that it can as quickly as it can. You don't really care so much if the company made a dollar last year; you want to know what it's going to make this year.
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A racist and misogynist should not be a president in 21st-century America.
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Let's face it: I look pretty out of shape.
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The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.
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I'm hatin' my reflection, I walk around the house tryin' to fight mirrors, I can't stand what I look like
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When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.
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I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place and by that point I kinda know what I want them to sound like.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.
