Michael Ignatieff Quotes

America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley Clark returned home angry and ashamed at their defeat and rebuilt all-volunteer, professional armed forces from the ground up.

Michael Ignatieff

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Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.

Andrew Young

FutureFreedomChildrenHealthValue

There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all.

Max von Sydow

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We've reinvented ourselves many, many, many times.

John L. Flannery

OurselvesManyTimesReinvented

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

Robert Schumann

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The phrase 'dream career' sounds pretty stupid.

Tom Sturridge

StupidCareerDreamPrettySounds

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

Roy Harper

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I don't care what I look like. I must be comfortable. Some of my friends have plastic surgery and Botox, but I'm not interested in it.

Miriam Margolyes

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Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

Coolio

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Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere.

Brian Koslow

TrustYouFindAnswersInstincts

What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.

Ava Gardner

FaceLooksSayPointLivedShall

I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them; it's to push them.

Ricky Schroder

TrustBestCreativePeopleMeBaby

There were so many nerves with putting out new music.

Noah Cyrus

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