Michael Ignatieff Quotes

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

Michael Ignatieff

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When I retired, I really wanted to spend time with my family and kids. Coaching would have prevented that due to the commitment of the job and travel that goes with it, too.

John Elway

FamilyTimeCommitmentJobTravel

Green Arrow was a very complicated character to take on because he has archaic weaponry. Catwoman, I think is more of a simple archetype to grasp, so it will be about nuance. But I think you need three or four issues before you say, 'Ah ha! Now I really know how to write this character!' You're carrying them around with you.

Ann Nocenti

CharacterSimpleGreenThinkYou

I'm all over the place.

Meryl Streep

PlaceOver

There is nothing wrong with fashion - it should be a beautiful expression of who we are.

Amber Valletta

BeautifulFashionWrongNothingWho

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

Sophia Bush

GoodMeReputationDrunkLateOut

I think Bush was seen as someone who was disentangling America from the connections that it had with the outside world, that it found encumbering for domestic purposes.

Tony Judt

WorldThinkConnectionsSomeoneSeen

My shareholders expect me to make the most profit. That's the ugly, dirty truth.

Martin Shkreli

TruthUglyMeDirtyProfitExpect

My girlfriend in eighth grade had been asking her friends when I was going to kiss her. At a dance, my buddy said, 'You better do it now!' I went in for it. I felt like the coolest person on the face of the earth. A week or two later, she broke up with me.

Michael Rady

DanceKissMeFaceBetterFriends

I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.

Dawn Fraser

LiveTodayGreatPastWorldDawn

You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.

Christopher Moore

LifeArtBookYouKnowSometimes

If you've ever been to a great clown show, there's always a moment where the clown goes into the house and fuses with the audience. There's something fantastic about the improv of it all.

Annaleigh Ashford

GreatMomentYouHouseAudience

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

William Shakespeare

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