Conn Iggulden Quotes
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.
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Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.
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I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.
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I think everybody wants someone who understands them and is able to compromise and meet them halfway. I mean, it goes both ways, you know?
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With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial - and a greater willingness to overturn convictions when it becomes clear that a confession was untrue.
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Compromise in colors is grey.
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Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.
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I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody: Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians - I'll work with Martians if - and the if is critical - they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.
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Moving from Rome to Brussels was hard.
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the only leader in this House that will not compromise.
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Those residents who are there should consider leaving unless their presence there is essential, ... British citizens who remain should exercise extreme caution, especially in public places.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.
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All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.
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My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.
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The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.
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No Compromise is what the whole Gospel of Jesus is all about... 'For I tell you...no man can serve two masters...' (Matt. 6:24). In a day when believers seem to be trying to please both the world and the Lord (which is an impossible thing), when people are far more concerned about offending their friends than offending God, there is only one answer...Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him!
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I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
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After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.
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Rome wasn't built on caution and compromise.
