Adam Giles Quotes

#1. To mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing.

Monica Lewinsky

#2. If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift.

Oli Anderson

#3. In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.

Veruschka Von Lehndorff

#4. It's just as hard ... staying happily married as it is doing movies.

Tom Hanks

#5. Judaism, I would argue, does demand love for our fellow human beings, but only to an extent. 'Hate' is not always synonymous with the terribly sinful.

Meir Soloveichik

#6. I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.

Adam Giles

#7. If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.

Adam Giles

#8. You'd have thought they'd have been on about Sir Elton John, and the fantastic goals David has scored which have got us through to the World Cup. But what they were really interested in was that I was holding a bag that had 'Sex' written on it. It's quite bizarre.

Victoria Beckham

#9. People want development. Not everyone knows what it means. Same as jobs. Not everyone knows what a job is, but people want jobs.

Adam Giles

#10. If someone comes to me, any community in the Northern Territory, with a viable economic future, and says, 'We want to be part of a bold new approach,' I'll put them down as a major project, and I'll do everything I can to help them out.

Adam Giles

#11. I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

Adam Giles