Melissa Etheridge Quotes
I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
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My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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Liam Smith was a resilient fighter. He was tough, has a lot of heart. He thinks before he attacks.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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There is no forgiveness in nature.
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I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.
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I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.
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I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all Time. I am the Cure. You do of the City, do you not? Manhattan is your punisher, let me be you shield.
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Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
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I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.
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Making changes isn't about stopping the problem, it's about starting the solution.
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I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'
