Conn Iggulden Quotes
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
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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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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 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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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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The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.
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There's a movie called 'Pod People' that has a weird little anteater alien. That was a good alien.
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One Direction. Proper pop band. There has to be a band that people want to scream at. I don't think I've ever behaved like a pop star.
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For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
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A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
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I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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I am a fan of an all-of-the-above energy strategy, and I certainly support wind as a large part of that goal.
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If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
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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.
