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" Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away. "
Melissa Etheridge
Born
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" I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican. "
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" When you realize that we're the spirit that's in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body. "
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" I have days when I say, 'I'm going to have five chocolate chip cookies today.' I'll have a salad every day but every week I have a cheat day. "
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" I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet. "
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" There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine. "
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" Chemotherapy tests your sanity. "
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" 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. "
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" Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought. "
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" I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity. "
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" My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It's the stress that will turn that gene on or not. "
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" I always tell people I'm grateful for my cancer diagnosis because it was the greatest gift because it completely changed my life. I was able to stop and let my whole life and world just crash over me like a wave. And I stood there and went, 'Wow.' And for the first time, I stopped everything. I had to. "
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" The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career. "
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" People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long. "
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Children
" Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health. "
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" When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people. "
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People
Songs
Up
" There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it. "
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" I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever. "
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" What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control - levels of energy that perhaps we don't see. "
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Power
" I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.' "
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Dedication
Day
Life
" All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal. "
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Women
Men
" I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything. "
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" Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am. "
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" I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey. "
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Done
Experience
" I kind of thought when I was 30 that you're as good as your going to get. And that's not true. "
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" I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am. "
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" I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer. "
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" My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else. "
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" I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred. "
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" It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard. "
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Children
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Mom