Alanis Morissette Quotes

Supposed former infatuation junkie, I sink three pointers and you wax poetically.

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• Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Great
  • Business
  • Together

• I miss my dad, yes. But I try to honor his memory, as well as all the victims of Hurricane Katrina, through the love I have for all humanity, a love I try to express through my music.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Music
  • Humanity
  • Honor

• I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Money
  • Free
  • Me

• Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Simple

• I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Makeup

• The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • American
  • Law
  • Professional

• A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.

  

  Val McDermid
  • People
  • Reality
  • Take

• With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out.

  

  Larry King
  • Think
  • You
  • Internet

• For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Heart
  • Character
  • Pain

• It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibility for it, and speak up and say, This isn't right; this isn't me.' It's a great lesson, not just in wrestling but in life. If you're not feeling something that's true to your heart... everybody's gotta be true.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Want
  • Travel
  • Dog

• Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Just
  • Cause
  • Stands

• Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every single, you know, ideology, we have every single background. However, when it comes to the screen, we have one code of ethics and one code of conduct.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Single
  • Diversity

• The Old School Tie can still be seen on the Government benches.

  

  Clement Attlee
  • School

• 中醫不過是一種有意的或無意的騙子。

  

  Lu Xun

• I have been described as a very mysterious human being and that hurts a little bit, because it's not like that at all.

  

  Agnetha Fältskog
  • Mysterious

• Algunas cosas se hacen tan nuestras que las olvidamos.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

  

  Joe Eszterhas

• What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

  

  Brendan Behan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Lost

• The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • God
  • Wonder
  • Bored

• We can sometimes find a person again, but we cannot abolish time. And so on until the unforeseen day, gloomy as a winter night, when one no longer seeks that girl, or any other, when to find her would actually scare one. For one no longer feels that one has attractions enough to please, or strength enough to love. Not, of course, that one is in the strict sense of the word impotent. And as for loving, one would love more than ever. But one feels that it is too big an undertaking for the little strength one has left.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Girl
  • Feels
  • Seeks

• I'm a firm believer in the hustle game.

  

  Eric Snow
  • Game
  • Believer

• You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.

  

  Michael Rooker
  • Remember
  • Film

• Supposed former infatuation junkie, I sink three pointers and you wax poetically.

  

  Alanis Morissette