Melissa Etheridge Quotes

I had to go see the Glee concert with my daughter - oh my God, shoot me.

Melissa Etheridge

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• Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Missing

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Up
  • Work
  • Day

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Time
  • Money
  • Love

• I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Real
  • You
  • Talent

• I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Real
  • Definitely
  • Streak

• Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

  

  Ice T
  • Life
  • Change
  • Doing

• I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Movies
  • Sorry

• I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and that's how I make a living - and from acting - but I never stopped playing and producing and recording music.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Done
  • Funny

• There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Computers
  • Unpredictable

• There is also present another source of energy operating in a more continuous fashion and being more intimately connected with the permanent evolution in human societies.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Energy
  • Fashion
  • Present

• You can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention, so that it becomes an end in itself.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Giving
  • Attention
  • Practice

• Music starts playing like the end of a sad movie.It's the kind of ending you don't really wanna see.'Cause it's tragedy and it'll only bring you down.Now I don't know what to be without you around.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Sad

• Thought may well be ever ranging,And opinion ever changing,Task-work be, though ill begun,Dealt with by experience better;By the law and by the letterDuty done is duty doneDo it, Time is on the wing!

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• ἀρχὴ παιδεύσεως ἡ τῶν ὀνομάτων ἐπίσκεψις

  

  Antisthenes

• I think celebrity has become almost normalized. I feel like we all live our lives in a pale imitation of celebrity. With Facebook, we choose a photo that is not too good a photo - we're more arch than that. We're our own celebrity publicists. We understand it so innately.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Good
  • Live
  • Celebrity

• We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.

  

  Dorothy Height
  • People
  • Life
  • Together

• What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Believe
  • Art
  • True

• Avoid giving invitations to bores - they will come without.

  

  Eliza Leslie
  • Bores
  • Invitations

• Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Family
  • Mental Illness

• Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Pride
  • Hearts

• I had to go see the Glee concert with my daughter - oh my God, shoot me.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Daughter
  • Shoot
  • Concert