Michael Ignatieff Quotes

Desert Storm was seen by the military establishment and by some politicians as avenging Vietnam, but it left behind dangerous illusions. The victory was so decisive, and information about it so carefully managed, that the American public was never clearly informed that it was purchased at the price of approximately 100,000 Iraqi lives.

Michael Ignatieff

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In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

Jim Mattis

LeadershipHomeAgeServiceTrust

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

John F. Kerry

AngerPoetryEnergyThinkBetter

There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.

Robert Robinson

MathematicsPhysicsChemistryPure

I always wanted my kids to be proud of their heritage.

John Leguizamo

ProudHeritageAlwaysKidsWanted

I thrive with high-performance challenges in front of me.

John M. Grunsfeld

MeChallengesThriveFront

You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

Amy Chua

LifeYourselfLongYouDownGoogle

Part of how we decide how we allocate our media is we have fairly sophisticated ways of measuring our return on marketing spend, which helps us best analyze the most effective way and medium in which to spend our marketing dollars.

Steve Easterbrook

BestMediaMarketingWayDecideUs

I've never seen any ghost, but I definitely believe that there's some sort of something spiritual out there. I mean, there has to be.

Amanda Crew

SpiritualBelieveNeverMeanOut

What I like about Bain Capital is that we have Republicans, we have Democrats, we have independents; we are a diverse firm in terms of political views. But what we do is we sit down and we try to solve the problems.

Stephen Pagliuca

ProblemsPoliticalDownTrySit

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

Sophocles

DoneWhyMilkNo SenseOverSense

What I like about Bre.ad is the simplicity of it. When you can explain it to people, like 'five-second billboards in front of a link shortener,' it makes a lot of sense.

Troy Carter

SimplicityPeopleYouExplainSense

I would have only doubted myself if I was really attached to the result of what I was doing, but I was always doing it and will always do it for the love of making songs, and if you liked it you liked it, if you didn't, you didn't. It was always pure and always will be pure.

Russ

LoveMyselfDoingResultYouWill

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