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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What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.
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The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.
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Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
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What's funny is my mom took me to the theater for the first time when I was six years old, and I was just amazed by it. I just said, 'Hey Mom, can I do this too?' And so she signed me up for little theater classes, and I remember my first audition for a play when I was seven years old was for 'The Thankful Elf.'
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Human uploads have such a natural advantage over present-day people in the environment of space, it's exceedingly unlikely flesh-and-blood beings will ever engage in interstellar travel.
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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.
