Alanis Morissette Quotes

I want to decide between survival and bliss And though I know who I'm not I still don't know who I am But I know I won't keep on playing the victim

Alanis Morissette

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• As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Place
  • Information
  • Possible

• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Look
  • Him

• I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • American
  • Want

• I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Me

• In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Being
  • Nation
  • Unfortunate

• I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Like
  • More
  • My Own

• As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Thought

• Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Science
  • Mean
  • Act

• Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Most
  • Failed
  • Some

• Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Growing
  • Space

• I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Enjoy
  • Actors
  • Working

• People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Stop
  • Coffee

• People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So – no.'

  

  Candy Crowley
  • People
  • Want
  • Always

• We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Life
  • Death
  • Road

• I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

  

  Carl Jung
  • God
  • Thoughts
  • Sun

• All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Joy

• A new species is arising on the planet. It is arising now, and you are it!

  

  Eckhart Tolle

• Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

  

  John D. Rockefeller
  • Opportunity

• The speed of life that top American athletes have is boom-boom-boom, and I'm a lot slower. I look before I cross, you know?

  

  Christen Press
  • Life
  • American

• The second group consists of people of action who spend their lives in the public or political sphere. Their goal is fame or honor—recognition. The problem, however, is that they are keener on being recognized, than on actually being good people. What matters is the accolades and not the reason for.

  

  Edith Hall
  • Political
  • Action
  • Reason

• Survival often depends on a specific focus: A relationship, a belief, or a hope balanced on the edge of possibility. Or something more ephemeral: the way the sun passes through the hard seemingly impenetrable glass of a window and warms the blanket, or how the wind, invisible but for its wake, is so loud one can hear it through the insulated walls of a house.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Relationship
  • Survival
  • Balanced

• I want to decide between survival and bliss And though I know who I'm not I still don't know who I am But I know I won't keep on playing the victim

  

  Alanis Morissette
  • Survival