Michael Ignatieff Quotes

Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.

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• Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Trouble
  • Individual
  • Last

• 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.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • History
  • Free

• Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Happy
  • Silly
  • Fools

• The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Power
  • American
  • America

• I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Song
  • My Life

• The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • World
  • Me
  • Fashion

• The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Research
  • Nerd
  • Phase

• 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.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Great
  • May
  • Imagination

• 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!

  

  H. Beam Piper
  • Men
  • Literature
  • Lies

• The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Victory
  • Greater
  • Swifter

• A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth. We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • World
  • Age
  • Desire

• I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Watching
  • Judgmental

• 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.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Funny
  • Air

• Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.

  

  Michael Ignatieff
  • Absolute
  • Perfectly
  • Lingerie