Conn Iggulden Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.
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But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
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I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.
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I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave. Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. I was terrified.
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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
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If you had been there, you would have beshit yourself, believe me.
