Melissa Etheridge Quotes
I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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Working with special needs children is hard.
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I'm a proud family man.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
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Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.
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We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.
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It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.
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To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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I find a pregnant body to be beautiful and an incredible reminder of what a woman's body is made to do.
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The greatest communicators have unknowingly used a story pattern. They not only use anecdotes effectively, but their communication followed a persuasive story pattern of tension and release. That tension and release is created by contrasting [what is] with what could be as a structural device.
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People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.
