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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. "
Melissa Etheridge
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" 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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" 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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" 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 can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself.' "
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" I stand before you a totally healthy person. "
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" I have always loved Broadway. "
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" I believed in Obama for social issues. I believe he brought our nation together and healed our racial divide. Martin Luther King's dream came true when he was elected. That's huge. "
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" I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine. "
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" Love is never wrong. "
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" Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am. "
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" There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also. "
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" I don't think anyone masters parenthood. "
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" Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone. "
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" Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song. "
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" I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet. "
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" Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff. "
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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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" I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop. "
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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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" The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs. "
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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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" We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal. "
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