Conn Iggulden Quotes
If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That’s the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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I purposefully did not want to watch anything I've done so far; I actually don't like looking at my face, so I don't like watching myself on the screen. It's an insecurity thing I have.
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Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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I'm a proud family man.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That’s the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.
