Conn Iggulden Quotes
A death is never good. It's never pleasant. We can only ignore it, until our time comes.
Quotes to Explore
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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I want to serve the people.
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I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
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God only knows what else is on the web about me.
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A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.
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Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.
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I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemical means.
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You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!
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Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.
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No, I thought, growing more rebellious, life has its own laws and it is for me to defend myself against whatever comes along, without going snivelling to God about sin, my own or other people's. How would it profit a man if he got into a tight place, to call he people who put him there miserable sinners? Or himself a miserable sinner? I disliked the levelling aspect of this sinnerdom, it was like a cricket match played in a drizzle, where everybody had an excuse - and what a dull excuse! - for playing badly. Life was meant to test a man, bring out his courage, initiative, resource; and I longed, I thought, to be tested: I didn't want to fall on my knees and call myself a miserable sinner. But the idea of goodness did attract me, for I did not regard it as the opposite of sin. I saw it as something bright and positive and sustaining, like the sunshine, something to be adored, but from afar.
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Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
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I love writing.
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A death is never good. It's never pleasant. We can only ignore it, until our time comes.
