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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Now we're here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one's going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We'll see what happens.
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"I believe it" announced Tafe complacently. "That my dear " said Ambrose "is because you grew up in a rough and violent world here just managing to live from day to day is easily considered a miracle. You are able to accept the truth no matter how astonishing its guise. Whereas our friend Hocker here is steeped in the overweening rationalism of his time and could mentally dismiss a mastodon in front of him if it happened to be wearing the wrong school tie
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True prosperity isn't something you take from the world: it's something you share with the world.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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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.
