Michael Ignatieff Quotes

Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, 'Those who can, do, those who can't, teach,' forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.

Michael Ignatieff

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An institution that borrows on a non-prioritized basis would never contemplate borrowing on a prioritized basis. Doing so would undermine its standing in the bond market and suggest that it is not worthy of its strong credit rating. This type of self-imposed downgrade would materially affect its financial prospects.

John Delaney

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I'm tough, but I have a heart.

John Catsimatidis

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Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.

John Lewis

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The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.

John Major

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There's a Kiss through-line to a lot of the music that came out of Seattle, and it hasn't been talked about a lot.

Mike McCready

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Many Africans are used to a life where they get up in the morning and don't know what they're going to do that day.

Mo Ibrahim

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The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

Clive Bell

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When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

Colbie Caillat

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I am very flattered that so many people loved 'Chasing Dreams.'

Bradley Walsh

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There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

Peter Straub

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It's one thing getting the job of Doctor Who, which is wonderful. And then the next thing they say to you is, 'We're going to announce it live on television!' And you think, 'That's not exactly what I thought I was signing up for!'

Peter Capaldi

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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Pericles

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