Flack Quotes

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero. (Mackenzie Astin)

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

Peabo Bryson

I wasn't really shocked or anything. Because of what I saw after the incident after the NFC championship game. You've got a lot of racial backlash, and a lot of racist comments that were uncalled for – I can never see a time where racism is called for. So it didn't shock me as much as it would have had I not experienced that personally, had I not seen those things. Because it showed me that America still had some progress to make. On equality, and understanding that it doesn't matter what color you are, you treat people as people. And whether a good person or a bad person, you don't judge them off the color of their skin. You can know a person is a good person or a bad person by who they are, not by what they look like. In that situation, it just seems like a lot of people gave him a lot of flack, well deserved, but you know – I feel like a lot more people were surprised then they should have been.

Richard Sherman (American football)

I've been banging the drum on that sort of thing, environment sustainability, for a long time – and getting some flack for it along the road – so yes I'm pleased other artists are starting to get on board with it too, but listen, really taking flack is what we do – it's ok, I'm cool with that. source.

Chris Martin

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides."- Unofficial UN Motto.

Robert Asprin

I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.

Michael Winterbottom

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.

Moby

I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their belief precludes everybody else's. I am an atheist and an absurdist and I have been for many years. I've actually taken a huge amount of flack for that.

Joss Whedon

Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.

Whitney Houston

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!

Tyler Perry