A Quote by Alanis Morissette

In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate.

Alanis Morissette

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Advocate Artist Emotionally Feminist Flag Focused Reluctant Role Thrust Waving

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Alanis Morissette
Canadian - Musician
Born: June 1, 1974

Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

Nicholas von Hoffman

The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.

Ann Coulter

I wouldn’t want to be labelled unless it was something much broader and inclusive such as an ecological artist or a visionary artist, but there’s a constraint in the definition of a feminist artist, you’re an artist and you’re a feminist.

Carolee Schneemann

I say if you are here illegally and are displaying and waving the Mexican flag, you should go back to Mexico and fly that flag there.

Virgil Goode

High national emotions are permissible when a soccer team is playing precisely because they are impermissible at most other times. There aren't, simply, many other places where you can sing your national anthem until you lose your voice without causing a riot. In the context of soccer, flag-waving nationalism - even chauvinistic, anti-foreigner, flag-waving nationalism - is acceptable in Britain.

Anne Applebaum

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

Suzanne Vega

To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

Suzanne Vega

I love a bit of flag-waving.

John Lydon

The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.

Robert Irwin

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

Laurence J. Peter

I didn't know how to explain what I meant; sociopathy wasn't just being emotionally deaf, it was being emotionally mute, too. I felt like the characters on our muted TV, waving their hands and screaming and never saying a word out loud.

Dan Wells

I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

John Wayne

I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and gets an issue wrong.