Michael Giles Quotes

I'm amazed at how adventurous and how dangerous the music was, and still is. I haven't heard anything like it since. I'm quite surprised, because a lot of the music on there we never heard at the time.

Michael Giles

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• I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Death
  • Too Much

• And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Stage

• If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Child

• Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Building
  • Bridges
  • Walls

• I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Know

• We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Night
  • Day
  • Ocean

• Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Why
  • Age
  • Play

• I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • History
  • View

• I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • People
  • Live
  • Facebook

• Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

  

  Quintilian
  • Wish
  • Wise
  • Fools

• It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Real
  • Song
  • Me

• The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Beautiful
  • Alone
  • Universe

• I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Drink
  • Alcohol
  • Smoke

• I'm a walking, talking enigma.

  

  Larry David
  • Walking
  • Talking
  • Enigma

• You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Lost
  • Die
  • Leaving

• It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

  

  Hal David
  • Work
  • Done
  • Song

• Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Day

• People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Content

• I think just having everybody know who you are is more of a challenge. More than anything about it is just knowing people are watching. I know who I am, so it's watching things I say, what I do. Even if I'm in line at one of the rest stops or something, it's just being on my Ps and Qs at all times more than anything.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Challenge
  • Knowing
  • Watching

• I would have liked to do more big movies. And the reason I say that is not because I want to be a star, but what I would have liked to have done is reached a different audience with my work.

  

  David Suchet
  • Work
  • Different
  • Done

• What is your peace all about? What is your comfort all about? Where do you get your love? Where do you get your talents? And I can turn to them and say without blinking, ‘Jesus Christ.’

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Peace

• For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?

  

  Tertullian
  • Discipline
  • Numbers
  • Lawful

• The observers had a logbook recording the assaults, bombings, and artillery attacks on the area. Each page was ruled in vertical columns: DATE, TIME, LOCATION, DAMAGE, CASUALTIES. The columns headed ACTION TAKEN BY THE UN were completely empty.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Action
  • Taken

• I'm amazed at how adventurous and how dangerous the music was, and still is. I haven't heard anything like it since. I'm quite surprised, because a lot of the music on there we never heard at the time.

  

  Michael Giles
  • Time
  • Music
  • Never