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 write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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One of my more hectoring voices, throughout my career, has been the one that says I ought to stop what I'm doing and make an outline.
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All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore.
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The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.
