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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• A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!

  

  Danica McKellar
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  • Upside Down

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

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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  • World
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Carice van Houten
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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.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
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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.

  

  Carl Lewis
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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.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Seem

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

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Money
  • You

• 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.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Flying
  • Stand

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

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Best
  • Give
  • Unable

• 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.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Real
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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.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Proud
  • Military
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • World
  • Thought
  • Model

• 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.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • You
  • Religion
  • Living

• 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.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Life
  • Long
  • Hand

• 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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Week
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  • Someone

• In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Value

• I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of stuff that people can connect to more.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Real
  • Art

• I have publicly talked about Mexico's need to open ourselves up to the participation of the private sector in the energy sector, however this doesn't mean privatizing state-run companies.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Up
  • Energy

• Growing up, I was always prancing around and singing... and I just never really stopped.

  

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  • Up
  • Growing
  • Singing

• When I wrote for Jordan Knight, I was 17 or 18, they were pretty much the only songs I was writing. By the time people like Christina or Usher came around, I was able to know that I was writing for different points of view and people that might not want to say certain things. So you have to be considerate of whichever artist you're writing for.

  

  Robin Thicke
  • People
  • Certain
  • Jordan

• The idea that you would not only exercise but that you would enjoy it is very difficult for me to understand. I just hate it.

  

  Jimmy Kimmel
  • Hate
  • Exercise

• I want finally to thank Londoners for their solidarity. There are some places in the world where such an incident would have unleashed internal strife and physical violence. London has stood together, we haven’t had any problems of the sort you might see in other parts of the world and I think it says everything about what is right about this city.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • World
  • Together
  • City

• 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