Conn Iggulden Quotes
Enjoy the peaceful moments, Zhenjin. When the fighting starts, this will be a pleasant memory.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
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I love words. They're fun. I don't think any word can just be filler. There's no room for it. It's like a puzzle. Every song can be written a million times. How can you say it differently?
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I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
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We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.
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Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.
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Over the years, I've tried to express myself through my feet, which have made everything simpler for me ever since I was a child.
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I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.
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The Egyptian officers informed me that I would be denied entry, and I was soon deported back to Yemen on the same plane on which I had arrived. The authorities gave me no clear answer why: They said that I knew the reason for my deportation better than them, and that my name had been blacklisted based on the request of a security body.
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I just want to get back to the point where America has the best of everything.
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Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
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Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.
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A tea set is good for a newborn girl. It is a gift that instantly makes the room a girl's room.
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Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
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If you're not sure how you feel about same-sex marriage, go and meet some of the families and see what they're looking for. Once you take it out of the caricature of what gay people are and what gay marriage is, and put it in the reality of family and what these folks are fighting for, it's really amazing.
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Confidence starts at home, and something my mother never did was look in the mirror and say she was ugly or fat.
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Enjoy the peaceful moments, Zhenjin. When the fighting starts, this will be a pleasant memory.
