Michael Caine Quotes
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The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
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People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.
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The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.
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'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.
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I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.
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It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.
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The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.
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I feel like I've been fortunate enough that I've gotten to meet and work with some really passionate people.
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That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp. And he wrote my next movie, which was 'Made.'
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.
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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
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I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
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I'm never scared what people are gonna think about music that I make.
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I believe, as do most people, that we have an obligation to assist the truly destitute.
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Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
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The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.
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I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
