The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire – everything they control themselves, buy and sell. – Jack Ma
I have restaurants, bookshops… but it’s not an empire, more… a puzzle. If it were an empire, all my restaurants would be the same. – Alain Ducasse
The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire. – Barbara Amiel
I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in. – Benedict Wong
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire. – Barbara Amiel
If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball. – Dan Quisenberry
If the Soviet empire still existed, I’d be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now. – Newt Gingrich
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan. – Pankaj Mishra
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. – Gore Vidal
I went into a Whole Foods to buy chewable vitamin C and got tackled by, like, 15 girls who watch ‘Empire.’ – Jussie Smollett
I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who’s created an empire for herself. – Lauren Conrad
Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality. – Kenneth Scott Latourette
In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire. – James Theodore Bent
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty. – John Lothrop Motley
Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants. – John Shimkus
‘Empire’ was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn’t what I expected it to be. – Lee Daniels
