Conn Iggulden Quotes
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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When I walk for a designer, I walk the ramp as Vijender Singh, the boxer. I believe that by doing so, boxing will at least, in some way, get promoted in our entertainment industry. Plus, if cricketers can, why can't I?
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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.
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I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.
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I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are struggling with parts of themselves... But it's like in the end, there has to be confidence.
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It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.
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In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.
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The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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No worthy goal can be achieved easily. A virtue is born in suffering.
