Conn Iggulden Quotes

For us, luck is a trifle over which, in human life, it passes just like that. We try and suffer because, thanks to that, we know that we are alive.

Conn Iggulden

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• I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.

  

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• I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.

  

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• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  

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• Know or listen to those who know.

  

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• You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.

  

  Pamela Anderson
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• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?

  

  Tamsin Greig
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• From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
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• Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.

  

  Garik Israelian
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• I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.

  

  Saku Koivu
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• I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
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• I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• Women know how to scare other women.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
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• I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'

  

  Nathan Outteridge
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• Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
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  • Hope

• Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • World
  • Men
  • Trying

• As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency.

  

  J_K_Bharavi
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• For us, luck is a trifle over which, in human life, it passes just like that. We try and suffer because, thanks to that, we know that we are alive.

  

  Conn Iggulden
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  • Luck
  • Alive