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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	There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.   
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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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	Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.   
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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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	You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.   
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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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	It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.   
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	The most frustrating thing to me is when I tell people I work on 'Friday Night Lights,' they'll say, 'Oh, I hear that's a really good show.' They never watched it.   
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	It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.   
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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.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					