Michael Ignatieff Quotes
The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
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Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
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Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
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I had never been able to truly hate anyone who’d suffered, no matter what evils they’d done in the aftermath.
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Time will rust the sharpest sword,Time will consume the strongest cord;That which molders hemp and steel,Mortal arm and nerve must feel.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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Like a human being, each word has a story. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today and how it has changed along the way.
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The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
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Personally, I have nightmares about the unstoppable monster.
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I'm writing all the books I wish I had when I was a kid.
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'The position of the United States had undergone a drastic change; the purpose and capabilities of the State Department had not.'
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The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.
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This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.
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The audience swelled to six in the end and we all huddled in a corner.
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I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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I don't need gold in heaven, I gotta have it now.
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.
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The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.
