Gail Giles Quotes

Simon Glass was easy to hate. I never knew exactly why, there was just too much to pick from. I guess, really, we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we killed him.

Gail Giles

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• I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

  

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• My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.

  

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• The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.

  

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• We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

  

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• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

  

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• You reach a point where you don't work for money.

  

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• People trash talk me.

  

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• You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

  

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• I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

  

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• As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.

  

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  • Proud
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• I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.

  

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• The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

  

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• If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.

  

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• I was in middle school right around the time the Bloods and the Crips started taking root in Compton and a lot of the other neighborhoods around me. I saw way too many of my peers - smart, kind, good kids - who got drawn into gangs and violence, and their futures were going to be forever scarred by that.

  

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• I was born in New York.

  

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• Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.

  

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  • Earth
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  • Material

• Simon Glass was easy to hate. I never knew exactly why, there was just too much to pick from. I guess, really, we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we killed him.

  

  Gail Giles
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Reason