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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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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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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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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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 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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Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.
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We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and will be the victims of God's divine wrath.
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I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.
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Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.
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Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.
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I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.
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Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
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The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
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When it comes to the challenges of the actual process, I soldier on as best I can, on my own.
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The holidays are only holy if we make them so.
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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.
