Michael Ignatieff Quotes

I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies.

Michael Ignatieff

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LifeSayingEndSomeoneChairWant

I always disliked that anytime you had gays represented in - and there were some exceptions, certainly - but represented in popular fiction, they were usually the goofy neighbor next door, you know? And I just thought, 'Well, I know a lot of gay people, and they're just as varied as the heterosexual people I know.'

Joe R. Lansdale

PeopleDoorThoughtYouGayKnow

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Anna Louise Strong

LoveLonelinessLove IsEnoughFall

I like the idea that we settle into what looks best on us. Then it becomes a game of finding the perfect version of those things.

Michael Bastian

BestGameFindingPerfectLooksUs

We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.

Steven Levy

SocietyLookingMoreNationLike

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm writing a book, which I probably do two out of every three years, it's like having a second job. I squeeze in the hours when I can.

Steven Pinker

TimeJobResearchWritingBookRest

Teleportation would be the best because I live on airplanes. It would be super handy to be able to teleport around.

Tom Holland

LiveBestBecauseWouldAbleAround

We now have the right to have immediate, unfettered access to any site in Iraq and we have the right to interview people, both inside and outside Iraq.

Mohamed ElBaradei

PeopleNowInsideOutsideRight

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

Johnny Depp

PeopleCareSayWillOfficeBox

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

Douglas Hofstadter

SoulEvilMoreOutAntsLittle

I'm down to earth; people sense that and they appreciate it.

Drew Carey

PeopleAppreciateDownEarthSense

To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.

Debbie Ford

FutureLiveTruthHeartLightDay

I go every year to the Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives and it's spectacular.

Brigitte Nielsen

YearGoSpectacularEvery

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