You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
Margaret Atwood
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RAGHURAM RAJAN I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
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SIMON COWELL What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH You can't chase everybody on the Internet who's saying stuff about you, that's for sure.
BOBBY FLAY I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
FAREED ZAKARIA There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the ...
CHAD SMITH I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the...
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BARRY DILLER He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this c...
MARGARET ATWOOD For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.
COLIN GREENWOOD It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club wit...
DENNIS BERGKAMP You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow...
JAKE OWEN I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL There's something about small venues that's amazing for developing material. It's almost...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA I would not be gloom and doom because it is not at all gloom and doom.
PATRICK FORD There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something ...
CHRIS CORNELL Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense a...
KAL PENN I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated un...
NAZANIN BONIADI Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to...
JOAN COLLINS It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to ...
HENRY ROLLINS I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many pe...
OSCAR NUNEZ It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling'...
OWEN HART It's as if to be interesting, you had to be depressed and messy, but that's complete nonsens...
EDGARDO OSORIO Life's too short and too complicated for people behind desks, people behind masks to be ruining ...
JEFF BUCKLEY I am not mad because I'm a woman... I'm mad because you're an asshole.
MARGARET ATWOOD There's something cool about traveling when you're young. There's a sense of camaraderie...
COBIE SMULDERS With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.
AZIZ ANSARI It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echo...
HELEN GARNER Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
LAURA LINNEY I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the con...
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ALLEN IVERSON I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you...
JEAN KERR Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.
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MARGARET ATWOOD She’s the kind of woman who wants what she doesn’t have and gets what she wants and then despise...
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JEANETTE WINTERSON Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
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MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
TALIB KWELI It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can ...
CAROLINE DHAVERNAS That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.
JEFF FOXWORTHY So few people understand about anything.
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CHELSEA CLINTON You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear...
HILLARY CLINTON You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and...
KEVIN DURANT When people say to me, 'You make us proud,' it's heartwarming to hear that.
NADINE LABAKI To hear people saying, 'The music you are doing has really touched my life and it's moved me...
KIP MOORE There's nothing the Internet can tell me about myself that I don't already know. The rest is...
WENTWORTH MILLER It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience...
TOMMY LEE The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that ...
STEPHEN FRY When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period wh...
BURT RUTAN One of the things I've learned from 'Borgen' is that it's very easy to criticise peo...
PILOU ASBAEK The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really me...
ZOOEY DESCHANEL Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the Englis...
JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's ...
DARYL HALL Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile co...
JOAN LUNDEN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON A lot of comedians get a bad rep once they have kids and that's all they talk about, and people ...
TIG NOTARO People learn English from 'Full House.' Candace's husband, Valeri Bure, he learned to sp...
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ROBERT KNEPPER Stardom should be a discovery. You don't hammer it onto people's heads. You don't demand...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you...
FELICIA DAY The Republican National Convention is a great place to hear people talk about politics and values an...
JIMMY KIMMEL In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to ...
REBECCA MACKINNON Separate yourself from the gloom and doom seers. You won't do well with them
SOTONYE ANGA You can buy a box of low-fat macaroni and cheese made with powdered nonsense. I'm not worried if...
TOM COLICCHIO You know, you hear people talk about soul mates? That one person that you see, and that's it for...
BLAKE MYCOSKIE Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, ...
RACHEL JOHNSON Conflicts of interest' arise when you're not - when you're sneaky about it, when you'...
SEAN SPICER The game's the thing. That's why people tune in. They don't tune in to hear an announcer...
ERNIE HARWELL The worst thing that can happen is if you're stuck within a bubble and you think that is what li...
ALBER ELBAZ To be all gloom and doom about what happened is to miss what New Orleans is all about.
JERRY MAHER I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music...
JENNIFER HUDSON You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's ove...
CYNDI LAUPER I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any...
JOHN LYDON I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It ...
KAILASH KHER He doesn't know what is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him it he looks...
MARGARET ATWOOD Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most...
HANS MATHESON And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive...
ADAM SCOTT I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hi...
MIKE TYSON When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if yo...
PARK CHAN-WOOK Now that's not a doom and gloom statement. it's not something anyone should get upset about,
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MARGARET ATWOOD The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betr...
MARGARET ATWOOD Put yourself in a different room, that's what the mind is for.
MARGARET ATWOOD The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose
MARGARET ATWOOD I think of this as a democratizing device.
MARGARET ATWOOD I'm curious. If someone says 'Don't open that door', I'm right there!
MARGARET ATWOOD The main thing is to keep yourself awake [on writing]
MARGARET ATWOOD For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
MARGARET ATWOOD He's very in depth, on the dark side. He's interested in structure and how things work. After readin...
MARGARET ATWOOD The Orange prize has been pivotal in the careers of many women writers - it's given them that extra ...
MARGARET ATWOOD Just think of it as a very, very long pen.
MARGARET ATWOOD Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one
MARGARET ATWOOD This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
MARGARET ATWOOD We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
MARGARET ATWOOD A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
MARGARET ATWOOD Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are hum...
MARGARET ATWOOD They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to
MARGARET ATWOOD You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
MARGARET ATWOOD Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the Un...
MARGARET ATWOOD Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no...
MARGARET ATWOOD Also I could hear Amanda’s voice: Why are you being so weak? Love’s never a fair trade. So Jimmy...
MARGARET ATWOOD I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices,...
MARGARET ATWOOD Life is warped. I'm just in sync.
MARGARET ATWOOD I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it...
MARGARET ATWOOD We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.
MARGARET ATWOOD My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out...
MARGARET ATWOOD Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important thing...
MARGARET ATWOOD Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
MARGARET ATWOOD Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't chan...
MARGARET ATWOOD She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why...
MARGARET ATWOOD The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more...
MARGARET ATWOOD My self is a thing that I must now compose...as one composes a speech. What I must present is a 'mad...
MARGARET ATWOOD