Jeff Giles Quotes

In its more listless moments, 'Pharaoh's Army' seems a ramshackle collection of memories not overly concerned with telling a larger story.

Jeff Giles

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Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

Jim Harrison

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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I resist and resent the idea of California as a metaphor. It's something thrust upon us, usually by people in the East.

John Gregory Dunne

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In China, the government is involved in business in many different ways. They're involved in media and business. When you go to China, you have to rethink how you're doing everything. You have to become Chinese.

Travis Kalanick

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I definitely don't ever want to burn out at my job.

Miranda Lambert

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I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

Luke Ford

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Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Louis Farrakhan

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Back in the States, women play flag football, but they have the same opportunities as the guys do.

DeAngelo Williams

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'Home And Away' was my first big break. I was already a fan of the show, so to suddenly be on it was really good.

Christopher Egan

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When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult.

Christine Quinn

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Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.

Bob Newhart

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Leapfrog innovation - consistent, constant, ridiculous leapfrog innovation - only happens within a dictatorship. Any time you try to do something really innovative, most people aren't going to understand it until after they experience it. So when you're developing in innovation, you have to be a dictator.

Ashton Kutcher

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