Conn Iggulden Quotes
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
Quotes to Explore
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What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.
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When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
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I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
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If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.
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'Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually.
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When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
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There's still people who think me being married to a sista is an act. What, you think I'd make that up for a persona?
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Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.
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If you want to decide the question of migration without asking your citizens against the will of the people, you are fighting a losing battle.
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I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.
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I have listened to you, to our people. I have heard your doubts, your anxieties, nay, outright opposition to the lifting of Martial Law. And I have prayed to the Almighty for guidance. And it is after deliberate, sober judgment and soul-searching that I come before you and say, it is now time to terminate martial law.
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A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!
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The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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The prospect of outsized profits leads people to exaggerate their own capabilities. In their minds. They pretend to themselves that they are in control of events where perhaps they are not. And it is always one's stance upon uncertain ground that invites the attentions of one's enemies. Or discourages it.
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Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.
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The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use the search engine like an oracle. I've used the phrase for DMT, 'Arabian hyperspace.' So I thought of this, and then I searched it, 'Arabian hyperspace,' in quotes. And it took me right to a transcript of the talk in which I'd said the thing! You can find your own mind on the Internet. I'm very grateful to the people who type up my talks and then post them at their websites.
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I got quite good results from protein plates.
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I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun.
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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
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People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
