Conn Iggulden Quotes
We will not stop until the sea bounds us in every direction. I am Genghis who say this and my word is iron.
Quotes to Explore
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.
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Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what's been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context.
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Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
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I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.
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Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing.
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I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
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I just want to do my job.
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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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We will not stop until the sea bounds us in every direction. I am Genghis who say this and my word is iron.
