Michael Ignatieff Quotes

Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did.

Michael Ignatieff

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I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

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As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.

Jeff Greenfield

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I don't mind children cribbing answers off other children. It's one of the ways they can learn. I also don't think there should be too many constraints on what they can look at on the Internet.

Sugata Mitra

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In the movies, you typically do get to see the script beforehand. TV is different because there are a lot of scripts in the future that you haven't seen. You commit to a show, and you have to believe in the showrunner and their team and the stories they're going to tell.

Roy Price

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I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.

Michael Moore

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I would just watch the animals, and their stories would roll out when I wrote.

Jean Craighead George

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Giving is what makes a nation great.

Jonathan Sacks

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I'm not just gonna go after the black Jesse Jackson they all want to make fun of, but I know the wrong people are gonna laugh at that. I don't want to play to that crowd. I don't.

Chris Matthews

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The people I see be the most successful are the people who have an inner confidence and an inner strength that comes from the character they display away from the stage and from what their parents taught them.

Annaleigh Ashford

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People think that we're engaged with identity politics. The truth is that we're doing what the labor movement has always done - organizing people who are at the bottom.

Alicia Garza

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When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

Ryan Tedder

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There is a lot of information to know, but I prepare for the NFL Draft by coming to work every day.

Rich Eisen

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