Conn Iggulden Quotes
We are the silver people, the Mongols. When they ask, tell them there are no tribes. Tell them I am khan of the sea of grass, and they will know me by that name, as Genghis. Yes, tell them that. Tell them that I am Genghis and I will ride.
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.
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War is over if you want it.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
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I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
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Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.
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This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determination, and showing up and being professional. The rest is out of your hands.
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I love writing. It makes me so happy.
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Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.
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Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged. Having submerged themselves in disciplining each other by denouncing any heretics in their midst, they find themselves overwhelmed and outnumbered in America, where there is vibrant debate about all sorts of things they don't know how to begin to talk about. They resort to stomping their feet and shouting "shut up"... when they aren't prissily imploring everyone to be "civil."
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I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.
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Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.
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Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.
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Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.
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We are the silver people, the Mongols. When they ask, tell them there are no tribes. Tell them I am khan of the sea of grass, and they will know me by that name, as Genghis. Yes, tell them that. Tell them that I am Genghis and I will ride.
