Conn Iggulden Quotes
We are soldiers, Highness. We understand tomorrow could be the last day. Or the day after. A soldier has so little control over the time or manner of his ending. He can always choose how he faces it.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
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In all likelihood, you've been treated by a Muslim doctor or served by a Muslim waiter or worked beside a Muslim computer programmer. Even if you think, 'I don't know any Muslims,' it's probably not true.
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I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
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I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.
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I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.
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There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
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I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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I eat hamburgers all the time.
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The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.
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In 1967, I had formed a collaboration with Hermann Eggerer, then of Muenchen, and together, we solved the problem of the 'asymmetric methyl group' and applied the solution in some of the many ways that have proved possible.
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We are soldiers, Highness. We understand tomorrow could be the last day. Or the day after. A soldier has so little control over the time or manner of his ending. He can always choose how he faces it.
