Conn Iggulden Quotes

I am not you and all my choices have already been made, good and bad.

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• I made my first movie when I was five.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Movie
  • First
  • Made

• In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.

  

  Oliver North
  • Bad
  • Action
  • Best

• Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Different
  • Think
  • Choices

• At 8, I made a pact with God.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • God
  • Made
  • Pact

• Kleenex would have made a mint today.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Today
  • Made
  • Mint

• I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Trying
  • College
  • Couple

• By the time we've made it, we've had it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Time
  • Made
  • By The Time

• Tradition has made women cowardly.

  

  Nance O'Neil
  • Women
  • Made
  • Tradition

• There were choices to be made, harder choices than I would have liked, and I realised that I had been neglecting them because of their very difficulty.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Choices

• Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices - so it's not surprising that they're getting imperfect results.

  

  Jake Sullivan
  • People
  • Study
  • Choices

• A restaurant is a compendium of choices that the owner has made. If you look around a restaurant, everything represents a choice: the kind of salt shaker that's on the table, the art on the walls, the uniforms on the waiters.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Art
  • Choices

• Every time I'm preparing a new production, I'm trying to reinvent my style and offer the audience several choices.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Style

• Some movies you fall a step behind, and some you stay in the same place, make the same choices. And then sometimes there are people who know more than you but show you, and that's the maximum you can hope for - doing that with someone who says, 'I like you for what you are, and I want you to be in my picture.'

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Hope
  • Fall

• Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.

  

  Bethany McLean
  • People
  • Black
  • Choices

• Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

  

  Deb Caletti
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• We want people to still have choices - Ford cars and trucks, whatever works for their lifestyle.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • People
  • Choices

• The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

  

  Peter Eisenman
  • Choices
  • Architecture

• Aishwarya, my parent's daughter, has been brought up with enough values inculcated where I will use my discretion in my choices. At the same time, I recognize I am an actor, I am an artist, and if I feel the need to be liberated and do the kind of work I need to do, I will.

  

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Freedom
  • Choices
  • Weapons

• It's not enough to trade a prison of powerlessness for the pain of an empty stomach. But history shows that governments of the people and by the people and for the people more powerful in delivering prosperity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • History
  • Pain

• Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Passion
  • Ambition
  • Comparison

• It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Ideas

• Healing, he told us, depends on experiential knowledge: You can be fully in charge of your life only if you can acknowledge the reality of your body, in all its visceral dimensions.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Knowledge
  • Healing
  • Dimensions

• I am not you and all my choices have already been made, good and bad.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Choices
  • Made