Margaret Atwood Quotes

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Margaret Atwood

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TogetherSilenceGiftVoiceSpeech

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

John Shelby Spong

PeopleWorldYouWantStability

We've come to expect so little from online privacy measures that public displays of concern about the matter are more or less for show. Being devastated to discover you've been tagged in somebody else's photo has an air of the melodramatic about it at this point.

Sloane Crosley

YouPrivacyMatterMoreAirLittle

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

Tracey Ullman

CharacterGreatInfluencesBritish

I was born in revolution.

Mary Harris Jones

RevolutionBornI Was Born

One of the things that happens when you have austerity is that wages get lower, and some people think lower wages in the short run can increase corporate profits.

Joseph Stiglitz

PeopleThinkShortYouRunThings

I love getting older. I think it has to do with always being the kid on set.

Winona Ryder

LoveGetting OlderThinkKidAlways

Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ's body was given, and his blood shed for us.

William Tyndale

BodyBloodInstitutionHereUsShed

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

Nicolas Malebranche

GodWordsSpeakYouUnderstandAir

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.

Mos Def

LovePeopleBlackYouArtistThug

We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet.

Kevin McCloud

FutureMoneySocietyImpactNow

I do not know what kind of relationship Jim Carroll and The Ramones had, though I imagine they all knew each other, as they ran in the same scene.

Kevin Morby

RelationshipKnowKindSameImagine

What do I think being wild is? Nothing. Actually, the whole world is wild. Everything is wild. There we go.

Juliette Lewis

WorldThinkGoNothingWildWhole

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