Michael Ignatieff Quotes

Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to call them mercenaries - to do the country's fighting.

Michael Ignatieff

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Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

John Cheever

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I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.

Ann Voskamp

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We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Sue Grafton

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I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons.

Simon Cowell

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A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

Roy H. Williams

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I loved 'Carol.' I thought it was a beautiful film.

RuPaul

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The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.

Michael Kors

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I've been really fortunate to do several shows on Broadway; the longest run I've done is nine months, and that was 'Porgy and Bess.' The shortest run I've done was about a month and a half: my first Broadway lead in 'The Scottsboro Boys.'

Joshua Henry

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Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.

Dolores del Rio

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The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.

Dennis Ritchie

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It's the truth and people need to hear the truth.

Della Reese

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When I'm home, I like to plan out all of my workout routines and all of my eating for the whole week.

Christen Press

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