Conn Iggulden Quotes
Why do you hurt me? What more do you want?” she asked, tears shining in her eyes. “Power over you, little one,” he said, smiling. “What does any man want but that? It is something in the blood of every one of us. We would all be a tyrant if we could.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
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Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.
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I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing for making lists. Oh man, nothing beats turning to a fresh, clean page in a notebook, taking out a nice pen, and starting a list. There's so much potential there. So much to do, so little time! So hey, why not spend some of that time making a list.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it.
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Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
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I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.
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People don't want to hear about it if you're frustrated with your big career break.
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The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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Anything I do, I want to do it well.
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Most beliefs about nature and man, which were not founded on scientific observation, have served directly or indirectly religious and social interests, and hence they have been protected by force against the criticisms of persons who have the inconvenient habit of using their reason
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DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.
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There are still things I can do better.
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Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.
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Why do you hurt me? What more do you want?” she asked, tears shining in her eyes. “Power over you, little one,” he said, smiling. “What does any man want but that? It is something in the blood of every one of us. We would all be a tyrant if we could.
