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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To me it's just going for the moment that counts. Sometimes, I'll have all the elements there, and I like to play and push something, and to me, in the end, you do achieve things that you're not aware of in the beginning, even though you're there trying to get them.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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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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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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Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.
