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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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.
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We stand for musical individuality. That's all we stand for.
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There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.
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I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.
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A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there.
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Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.
