Conn Iggulden Quotes
The Buddha said, ‘Gripped by fear, men go to the sacred mountains and sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines.’ I am not afraid of death, my lady. I need no god to comfort me in my fear.
Quotes to Explore
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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I just saw 'Men, Women & Children' last night, and it's a devastating movie in a lot of ways, but it's so well done, so well acted.
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Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.
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First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.
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The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
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I'm open-minded.
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Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?
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The Buddha said, ‘Gripped by fear, men go to the sacred mountains and sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines.’ I am not afraid of death, my lady. I need no god to comfort me in my fear.
