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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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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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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Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."
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I don't compromise. I only do the stuff I want to do.
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Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
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And where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine.
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When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.
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Rome wasn't built on caution and compromise.
