Conn Iggulden Quotes
The Spartans would want it known how they had died. Of all things, they considered the manner of death mattered as much as the manner of life.
Quotes to Explore
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
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My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.
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I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
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The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.
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Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.
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Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.
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The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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Part of me has always wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe or any Fifties Hollywood starlet. On screen, they seemed so sexy and simple and looked after. In real life, I'm none of those things. But I'd rather be fierce and complicated.
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It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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The Spartans would want it known how they had died. Of all things, they considered the manner of death mattered as much as the manner of life.
