Michael Ignatieff Quotes

It turns out that there is nothing so 'ex' as an ex-politician, especially a defeated one. Your phone goes dead.

Michael Ignatieff

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Arthur Scargill's leadership of the miners' strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the N.U.M. as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader.

Jimmy Reid

LeadershipLeaderFightingChoice

I was a freshman All-American, and I tore my ACL in the third game. But God has a plan for everything. I had a chance to turn away from Him in that situation or draw closer to Him. I decided to draw closer to Him, and came back stronger from it.

Robert Griffin III

GodGameChancePlanStrongerBack

'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.

Stanley Hauerwas

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If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!

Rudy Rucker

LifeThinkYouKindAnythingAnswer

For many, the recent disclosure of massive warrantless surveillance programs of all citizens by the Obama administration has brought back memories of George Orwell's '1984.' Another Orwell book seems more apt as the White House and its allies try to contain the scandal: 'Animal Farm.'

Jonathan Turley

MemoriesAnimalBookFarmHouseTry

Regulations for international accounting and funding will have to be examined to identify policies that inadvertently discourage institutional investors from putting their resources into longer-term, illiquid assets.

Jose Angel Gurria

AccountingWillResourcesIdentify

There are times I felt insecure or not sure: I'm unsure of myself, or I get nervous, but nerves are good. I try and embrace all those things. I try and embrace the times where I'm not sure of myself or I'm like, 'Is this going to work? Is this going to land?'

Chelsea Handler

WorkGoodMyselfNervousLandTry

I have always looked after the little things of my business; weightier matters will take care of themselves.

Collis Potter Huntington

BusinessLittle ThingsCareTake Care

You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.

Brad Paisley

DayPeopleYouLookContribution

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

Brian McKnight

MusicMeThinkingRadioAnything

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

Ariel Gore

ChangeLearnYearNewSayDifficult

If anybody ever points out to me I'm chewing scenery, I certainly like to stop doing that.

William Fichtner

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