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.

Melissa Etheridge

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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.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • You
  • Proud
  • Woman

• Working with special needs children is hard.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Children
  • Working
  • Special

• I'm a proud family man.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Family
  • Man
  • Proud

• 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.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • People
  • Help
  • Wisdom

• 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.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • History
  • Know

• It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Just

• I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • Faith
  • Candidate

• There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • You
  • Fall
  • Self-pity

• 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.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Done
  • Think
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Cancer

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  

  Tacitus
  • Custom
  • Itself
  • Expediency

• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Trying
  • Loved
  • Show

• 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.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • Happy
  • Play
  • Always

• Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Man
  • Football
  • Unique

• 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.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Doing
  • Movies
  • Dumb

• I have no idea why I won, man. I guess some people liked the music that I was doing. I'm just lucky. I was just doing my thing each week.

  

  Phillip Phillips
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real. They want men to adore them like Lloyd Dobler would, and they want women to think like Aimee Mann, and they expect all their arguments to sound like Sam Malone and Diane Chambers. They think everything will work out perfectly in the end (just like it did for Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones and Nick Hornby's Rob Fleming), and they don't stop believing because Journey's Steve Perry insists we should never do that.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Work
  • Men

• King is a title which translated into several languages, signifies a magistrate with as many different degrees of power as there are kingdoms in the world, and he can have no power but what is given him by law; yea, even the supreme or legislative power is bound by the rules of equity, to govern by laws enacted, and published in due form; for what is not legal is arbitrary.

  

  John Arbuthnot
  • World
  • Different
  • Language

• You gain a lot of insight from employees by listening to them.

  

  Marc Veasey
  • Listening

• I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Sometimes
  • Listening
  • Discipline