Conn Iggulden Quotes
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.
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I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
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I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.
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The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
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I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.
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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
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I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another.
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I love serving in the government. I love serving in the Senate.
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'Thelma and Louise' was a pretty important film for me and still is. It's a social film about many things - gender, freedom - and it puts someone like me into the place of these protagonists. Watching that movie, you are living through the eyes of these women.
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I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.
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It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.
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The scent of a flower is a very close and intimate thing, she thought. It can seem to be a part of your body and blood.
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This is no game of thrones, but real endings and real blood.
