Adam Giles Quotes
I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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I want to win football games.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment must be accorded to the ideas we hate or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish. The first banning of an association because it advocates hated ideas - whether that association be called a political party or not - marks a fateful moment in the history of a free country.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.
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Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.
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I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.
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I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
