Melissa Etheridge Quotes

When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting.

Melissa Etheridge

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LifeDarknessGrowYouEdgeGrow Up

In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad.

Jerry Lawler

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When I started as a filmmaker, I never, ever imagined in a million years that I would be doing television because, at that time, TV was a very different medium.

Jeremy Podeswa

TimeDoingTelevisionNeverYears

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

John Dewey

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Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

Melvyn Bragg

MusicEverythingOperaArtsOnce

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

Mel Brooks

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Big banks, highly leveraged casinos, do whatever they can to keep the cost of their gambling as cheap as possible. This means keeping interest rates as cheap as possible.

Max Keiser

GamblingPossibleCheapWhateverBig

One little secret of the guys who have won one slam, is that we don't want other guys to win one because its like a bit of a special fraternity.

Andy Roddick

WinWantSpecialSecretFraternity

The roots of our statehood go back more than two millennia and two centuries to the origins of the Hun Empire. Building upon the legacies and power of the Huns, Mongols had built the largest land empire in the history of the mankind.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

PowerHistoryRootsBuildingBack

Since Graham Bell came up with telephony, it took 100 years for the way the technology has impacted our lives, the way we perceive the world.

Shiv Nadar

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I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

Rutherford B. Hayes

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I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.

Roh Moo-hyun

SituationPresidencyCannotConduct

That's what I've figured out over the years - the way I write makes people feel uncomfortable.

Lou Barlow

PeopleFeelUncomfortableWayWrite

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