Alanis Morissette Quotes
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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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In the future, officials will feel more pressure to protect the environment. But how to assess the officials' efforts to protect the environment is still a pivotal issue.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.
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I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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I also take vitamins because I think when you take care of yourself on the inside it makes a big difference in your skin.
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Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition.
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The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
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The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
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The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.
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I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of Government.
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I absolutely want and prize and love and revere every single media review I get, but if I got 50 reviews from major newspapers and one review from Amazon, I still would feel a little weird: 'What's going on? Why aren't people responding?'
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
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I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.
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Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.
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You've been vilified, used as fodder, you deserve a piece of every record.
