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I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama.
Fantasia Barrino / Actress
Caught
Mama
Young
Flak
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I get flak from everybody, which is how I know I'm living my truth.
Harris Faulkner /
My Truth
Flak
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I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.
Chuck Palahniuk / Novelist
Establishment
Selling
Selling Out
Flak
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Moderators may take flak - but, hey, that's part of what we sign up for.
Trish Regan /
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I'm not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that's not me.
Joe Biden / Vice President Of The United States
Bigs
Jackets
Shirts
Ties
Me Know Big
Flak
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Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.
Brett Hull / Hockey Player
Knows
Smarter
Catch
Everyone Else
Flak
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It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.
Salman Rushdie / Novelist
War
Johnson
Vietnam
Flak
Lyndon
Lyndon Johnson
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In my position, I'm always going to get a bit of flak. I take it with a grain of salt.
Karen Bardsley /
Grain
Salt
Flak
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
Caitlyn Jenner /
Conservative
Flak
Gotten
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You see a gorgeous woman on your screens in a flak jacket, and it's almost like entertainment.
Anne Sebba / Biographer
Entertainment
Gorgeous
Screens
Flak
Jacket
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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
Tori Amos / Singer-Songwriter
Ability
Church
Father
Strict
Flak
Father Me Church
Recognised
Supporting
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Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.
Kate Adie / Journalist
Literature
Nastiness
Years
Years Ago
Flak
Jacket
Wore
Worse
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We're definitely going to get some flak each and every day, whether it's social-media keyboard warriors, or people in person.
Bubba Wallace /
Day People Every Day
Flak
Warriors
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Even bigger directors like Mani Ratnam and Ram Gopal Varma have faced flak, that doesn't mean they've shied away from filmmaking.
Gautham Menon /
Bigger
Filmmaking
Flak
Ram
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You're going to get flak if you tell the wrong joke, but it's still the wrong joke. Give the wrong speech, you take it on the chin.
Brad Paisley / Singer-Songwriter
Speech
Chin
Flak
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Did people's attitudes towards me change after I appeared on TV? Yeah, definitely. During my career I've had some flak - particularly doing television.
Alice Roberts /
Change Me People
Appeared
Attitudes
Flak
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Renowned people from all fields receive unnecessary flak so often. Anonymity is misused, and it is a terrible thing to want to break somebody's spirit.
Sobhita Dhulipala /
Anonymity
Misused
Renowned
Unnecessary
Flak
Receive
Terrible Thing
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I don't have the biggest range on Earth, obviously, and I feel like people give me a lot of flak for that, but I don't really claim to have a big range.
Chloe Kohanski /
Range
Me People Feel
Me People Earth
Flak
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I got a lot of flak for having Kirk as the lead because they all claimed it was a much harder sell, but no one else could have done that part for many reasons.
Donal Logue / Actor
Harder
Claimed
Sell
Flak
Reasons
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I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.
Barry Watson / Actor
Being Different
Cowboy
Dallas
Hair
Long
Long Hair
Long Long Hair Hair
Sixth
Cowboys
Earring
Flak
Grade
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Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.
Juan Williams / Journalist
Dog
Moving
Wagons
Ahead
Barking
Dogs
Flak
Push
Wagon
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Not counting the brand of Sunni Islam practised by the so-called Islamic State, there is probably no religion in the world that comes in for more flak than Scientology.
Louis Theroux / Television Personality
Counting
Islam
Flak
So-Called
Sunni
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There is a lot of envy, there is a lot of flak that we as children of the industry get for what we may have achieved or not achieved. We're under constant surveillance.
Akshaye Khanna /
Envy
Surveillance
Achieved
Flak
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All of my favorite artists who inspired me were never afraid to be uncool and never afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves - no matter how much flak they took for it.
Ed Kowalczyk /
Sleeves
Me Matter Never
Flak
Hearts
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Coming from an Italian family, my parents had supermarkets and they said I had to take over as any son should take over the family business - I copped a lot of flak when I said 'no.'
Adriano Zumbo /
Italian Family
Family Business
Flak
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I receive the flak via nasty blog posts, letters, usually coming from very religious people who cannot reconcile how I could share spiritual message and at the same time teach about money.
Bo Sanchez / Entrepreneur
Letters
Nasty
Posts
Reconcile
Religious
Share
Spiritual
Teach
Time Money People
Blog
Flak
Receive
Religious People
Same Time
Via
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We in the ministry of IT and Communications often get flak for deciding what to ban. We actually never decide something should be banned. We always follow orders from different ministries.
Killi Krupa Rani /
Banned
Ministry
Always Never Something
Ban
Communications
Deciding
Flak
Orders
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Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
Donald Rumsfeld / Former U.s. Secretary Of Defense
Jobs
Best Job
Clutter
Goal
Obstacles
Static
Best Work Your
Job
Amidst
Aside
Beyond
Possible
Set
Down
Flak
Goals
Towards
Head
Put
Pass
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I've hit a couple barriers out there on the racetrack growing up. There's definitely been some flak in the way. I've been able to handle that the best I could, ignore it, use that as motivation.
Bubba Wallace /
Barriers
Flak
Ignore
Racetrack
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I've never seen somebody get more flak than Colin Kaepernick for silently and nonviolently protesting and standing up for something he believes, and something that obviously is an actual problem.
Blake Griffin / Basketball Player
Actual
Believes
Colin
Flak
Protesting
Standing Up
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I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
Duane Michals / Photographer
Bird
Photograph
Photography
Thousand
Writing
Anyway
Flak
Originally
Thousand Words
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A lot of the stories I got on A.I., I can't say publicly. Overall, I just really appreciated how he went about going into games. He got a lot of flak for the 'practice' comment, but every game, he gave it his all.
Lou Williams /
Appreciated
Comment
Flak
Overall
Publicly
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I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it also to prove your manhood. They all couldn't conceive of why I'd want to stop to do 'The Importance of Being Earnest.'
Powers Boothe / Television Actor
Earnest
Importance
Manhood
Texas
Conceive
Flak
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In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.
James Surowiecki / Journalist
Bars
Corporate
Downsizing
Executives
Judging
Setting
Wall
Bar
Option
Flak
Harshly
Slash
Wall Street
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The rest of the band had a cynical view towards the way 'Tusk' was made and the reasons why I thought it was important to move into new territory. It wasn't just negativity. There was open hostility. Then I got a certain amount of flak because it didn't sell as many as 'Rumours.'
Lindsey Buckingham / Musician
Hostility
Negativity
New Territory
Rumours
Territory
Flak
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Like most athletes, I like to go home and relax. I try not to bring the game home with me. I might play some video games that are, let's just say, for mature audiences only. And I might get some flak for this, but I like to watch 'Seinfeld.' Sometimes, laughter is the best medicine.
Nick Ferguson / Football Player
Laughter
Mature
Medicine
Relax
Video
Athletes
Audiences
Flak
Go Home
Seinfeld
Video Games
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It's a myth that I received any flak from the metal community over my decision to come out. I have, in fact, received numerous positive responses from fans, as well as e-mails from people who were going through much the same thing. It's horrible to keep something like that secret, and I felt I had to make it public.
Rob Halford / Singer-Songwriter
Decision
Fans
Horrible
Myth
Secret
Flak
In Fact
Metal
Numerous
Received
Responses
Same Thing
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Conservatives sometimes catch a tremendous about of flak from inside the Beltway - and those groups can exert extreme pressure on those conservative members to try to get them to vote in ways that are opposite of their core fundamental beliefs and the promises that they made to their constituents back in their districts.
Jeff Landry / Former U.s. Representative
Conservative
Core
Groups
Members
Opposite
Extreme
Beliefs
Catch
Tremendous
Conservatives
Districts
Exert
Flak
Fundamental
Promises
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
Madhuri Dixit / Film Actress
Neglect
Notion
Sake
Women Are
Family Women Home
Flak
Mothers
Responsibilities
Working Hard
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I expected a lot of flak over my new book, '50 Things Liberals Love to Hate' from, well, liberals. It's not a big shock that the kind of liberals I skewer in the book - the radical, Che Guevara-loving type - have posted scathing reviews at Amazon and written nasty e-mails and voiced opposition to a book they haven't actually read.
Mike Gallagher / Radio Host
Book
Nasty
Radical
Reviews
Shock
Type
Flak
Liberals
New Book
Posted
Voiced
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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
Oliver North / Host
Circumstances
Closest
Considering
Jackets
Neighborhood
Good Government World
Ally
Good Government Done
Created
Flak
Good Thing
Wearing
Happening
Representative
Young Americans
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'American Idol' gives people really wonderful opportunities, and they shouldn't take flak for what people do with that opportunity after they leave the show. A lot of casting rooms I was in, that was the only thing on my resume, and people would just be like, 'Oh, here's Katie Stevens. Another 'American Idol' girl who thinks she could be an actor.'
Katie Stevens /
American Idol
Casting
Rooms
Flak
Idol
Just Be
Resume
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