Conn Iggulden Quotes
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.
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I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.
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Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons closest to the nucleus feel a strong negative-on-positive tug, and the bigger atoms get, the bigger the tug. In really big atoms, electrons whip around at speeds close to the speed of light.
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Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
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Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.
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For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.
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I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.
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Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a - I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him - I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.
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Hawks and eagles don't fly together. They are of totally different kind.
