Michael Ignatieff Quotes
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.
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Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
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The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
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I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'
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The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.
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The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.
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All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.
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Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!
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The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory.
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I’m sentimental, but there’s nothing wrong with that.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.
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We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.
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Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.
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It can be hard to say if someone has a deliberate intent to defraud or if they are just really, really bad at their business. But even if people are unpublishable, it doesn't mean they should be ripped off.
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Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.
