Conn Iggulden Quotes
What is the purpose of life if not to conquer? To steal women and land? I would rather be here and see this than live out my life in peace.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
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We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
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Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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I think lots of men are like that. We sort of get dressed by our girlfriends.
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I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
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My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
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I sacrificed to the mania of the age, which is to overload things. My modeling is there, the eloquence of the gesture also. The rest would only spoil the essential things. It is a stroke of genius. I am going to write to the under-secretary of state that my monument is ready.
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There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.
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On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!
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Everybody must decide to reach a state where you everyday see the blessings of God manifesting.
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What is the purpose of life if not to conquer? To steal women and land? I would rather be here and see this than live out my life in peace.
