Margaret Atwood Quotes
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.
Quotes to Explore
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.
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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.
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Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
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I've given a lot of talks over the years on the subject of entrepreneurship. The first thing I find I have to do is to dispel the persistent myth that entrepreneurial success is all about innovative thinking and breakthrough ideas.
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I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.
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There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.
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The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans.
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I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.
