Margaret Atwood Quotes
I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
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I believe clothing tell a story.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.
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If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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The destructiveness of the tar sands is not inevitable. But Canadians and Albertans have become too tolerant of the politicians who compromise the nation's energy security as well as the next generation's future.
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It's nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.
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I've been playing the drums since age nine.
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I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.
