Conn Iggulden Quotes

Let us accept each coming day and make the best possible choices

Conn Iggulden

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• EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Cooking

• A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Art
  • History
  • Question

• To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Career
  • Day
  • End

• I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Career
  • Artist

• And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Place

• I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

  

  Sam Houston
  • World
  • Man
  • Thought

• Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Country
  • Think
  • Always

• There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Attention

• Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Singing
  • See

• Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Smart
  • Stubborn

• One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Long
  • Guy
  • Today

• We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Balance
  • Financial
  • Decisions

• I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Think
  • Way
  • Meet

• Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Society
  • Free
  • Fight

• I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Conflict
  • Unhappy

• For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Gay
  • Retirement
  • Lesbian

• But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Pain

• When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Song

• If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother informed me that I could not become a priest because I was a girl. It really was the biggest blow to my ego, because it was my calling. When she told me I'd have to be a nun, I looked at her and said, 'I'm not following anyone.'

  

  Donna Brazile
  • She
  • Mother
  • Age

• I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Father
  • Man

• Women deserve better. They deserve the freedom to make their own health care choices.

  

  Suzan DelBene
  • Women
  • Freedom
  • Choices

• Let us accept each coming day and make the best possible choices

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Day
  • Choices
  • Make