A Quote by Margaret Atwood

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. I would prefer to stay in the Writing Burrow and play with my imaginary friends and enemies. I get sucked into these things.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Canadian - Novelist
Born: November 18, 1939

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

Margaret Atwood

I'd get suspicious looks from people just walking down the streets. Where are you from? They'd ask. I'd reply in whatever language they'd addressed me in using the same accent that they used. There would be a brief moment of confusion, and then the suspicious look would disappear.

Trevor Noah

If we started thinking, 'Why's this funny?' we might start incorporating rules into it. I'd be suspicious that it would change the nature of what we do.

Vic Reeves

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.

Sam Altman

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

Lu Xun

Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.

Veronica Roth

Women are suspicious of this male ritual of the bachelor party and are suspicious of what men do and say when they are not being watched by them.

Craig Mazin

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

Aldous Huxley

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

Gertrude Stein

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Joseph Addison

I'm definitely suspicious of girls. I've been suspicious of girls my whole life, though, so it's not anything new.

Vinny Guadagnino

I would love to be on a show where I'm allowed to play a character that you're not suspicious of, from the get-go, and who's someone that you can just relax with, take in and like, right off the bat.

Courtney Ford

I'm not suspicious of success, I'm suspicious of the people who want to attach themselves because of your success.

Tyler Perry

We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

Bill Vaughan

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.