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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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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Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.
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Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.
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If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America's appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.
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A guy said to me, 'You're so lucky. You have people like Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand and The Beatles doing your songs.' I figured out, though, the harder I work the luckier I get. The secret of anything is to surround yourself with good people if you want a good product.
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If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
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Rome wasn't built on caution and compromise.
