Alanis Morissette quotes

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it. (Alanis Morissette)
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
Alanis Morissette
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
Alanis Morissette
I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.
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I think everyone's hungry for the truth.
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The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.
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A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
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The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.
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Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.
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When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.
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I feel this, truly proclaimed, will help the curbing of this tendency I know this sharing of shame will ensure that I won't forget myself so easily. (Alanis Morissette)
To all the unheard wisdom in the schoolyard, You think you're the right ones. You think you're the charmed ones, I'm sure. And how can you go on with such conviction? And who do you think you are? Why do you question me?
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For a long time, I didn't understand the idea of not being able to appeal to a human heart. And then Marianne Williamson (if I can dare drop her name)... we were doing a Q&A on stage, and there was a question about evil, and my quick, sort of spiritual response was (and I actually stand by it in some senses)... was that human beings are... maybe we're traumatised, maybe we're disconnected, and our behavior, ideally, would be separate from the truth of who we essentially are.
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There's an obvious attraction To the path of least resistance in your life Well there's an obvious aversion no amount of my insistence Could make you try tonight 'Cause it's easy not to So much easier not to And what goes around never comes around to you To you, to you, to you, to you, to you.
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Do I stress you out? My sweater is on backwards and inside out And you say, "How appropriate!"
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Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.
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If we were their condemnations, If we were their projections, If we were our paranoias, I'd be joining you. If we were our incomes, If we were our obsessions, If we were our afflictions, I'd be joining you.
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Dear popular boy, I know you're used to getting everything so easily, A stranger to the concept of reciprocity. People honor boys like you in this society.
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A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there.
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In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
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Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it. (Alanis Morissette)
I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.
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We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
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There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.
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But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.
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