Melissa Etheridge Quotes
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
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I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.
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I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.
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I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
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I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
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The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. (Hays translation)
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I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.
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I consider fitness, diet, and beauty to be essential to a balanced self.
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It's important for me to have my family close.
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I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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In reading Jung's account of his cases, it is impossible not to be aware that his success was due partly to an element of ruthlessness; he was dominated by curiosity rather than compassion.
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There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.
