Conn Iggulden Quotes
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
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You always learn something from mistakes.
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Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
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The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.
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In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.
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You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.
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If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.
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I'm not a princess,This ain't a fairytale.I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet,Lead her up the stairwell.This ain't Hollywood,This is a small town.I was a dreamer beforeYou went and let me down.Now it's too late for you and your white horseTo come around.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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Much learning shows how little mortals know;Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
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A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
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Some readers will no doubt say that a devil is inside me; and though my faith is a bit like Magic FM in the Chilterns, in that the signal comes and goes, I can only hope that isn't so.
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Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
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Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
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I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.
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When I started, there was a phase where I wanted to be a cowboy star. I didn't want to do deep, serious parts.
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Predators did not need mercy.
