Margaret Atwood Quotes

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Margaret Atwood

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FuturePastLanguagePlanRemember

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

Maya Angelou

AloneHappyLibraryYouInformation

I am a hopeless mamma's boy.

Michael Carbonaro

I AmBoyHopelessAm

I'm gonna be the best version of me. If there's something I don't know, I'm not afraid to ask.

Alyssa Edwards

BestMeKnowAskAfraidSomething

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

Stan Brakhage

I AmFoundationProveWayExistGet

I'm Greek-American, and I come from an immigrant-type background, and Greek-American parents want you to be a doctor or a lawyer. Because that's how you make money, and it's very respectable.

Steve Zissis

MoneyParentsDoctorLawyerYouHow

I reckoned I could meet more girls being in a band than playing soccer.

Roger Taylor

SoccerMeetMoreBandPlayingBeing

I'm happy to fight anyone. There's no particular person I want to fight next.

Robert Whittaker

FightHappyPersonWantNextAnyone

Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.

Ron Fournier

RelationshipWifeMeBetterNever

And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement.

Mitchell Reiss

MovementBeenLotDiplomatic

Stronger productivity growth would tend to raise the average level of interest rates and, therefore, would provide the Federal Reserve with greater scope to ease monetary policy in the event of a recession.

Janet Yellen

GrowthStrongerPolicyProductivity

The country that I was coming from, the island I was in, hadn't been written about, really. So I thought that I virtually had it all to myself, including the language that was spoken there, which was a French Creole, and a landscape that is not recorded, really, and the people.

Derek Walcott

MyselfPeopleThoughtLanguageBeen

If I'm acting at all, it's going to be under Marvel contract, or I'm going to be directing. I can't see myself pursuing acting strictly outside of what I'm contractually obligated to do.

Chris Evans

MyselfActingOutsideSeeContract

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