Michael Caine Quotes
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
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The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.
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Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.
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I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
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I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
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It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.
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Who you know, 10 albums later, get better than he's ever been before? It's hard. To come from all this huge success like a 'What's Love,' and a 'Lean Back,' then take it back to the street with 'The Darkside.'
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Since I'm on a tour bus, sometimes it's really hard for me to wash my face, so I always make sure I have those Neutrogena Make-up Remover Cleansing Towelettes. No matter what and no matter how long the days are, I always have to wash with those before bed and when I wake up.
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Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.
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I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.
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If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.
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Good scripts are hard to find.
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All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
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It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
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Moving from Rome to Brussels was hard.
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Fashion is a hard business.
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There is no such thing as a failed soldier, dead or alive (unless he acted in a cowardly manner)-likewise there is no such thing as a failed entrepreneur or failed scientific researcher ...
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An army is to a chief what a sword is to a soldier. It is only worth anything in so far as it receives from him a certain impulsion (direction and vigour).
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Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.
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In my head I had Bach and Schumann and Mozart and very little tango.
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There are two terrible things for a man: not to have fulfilled his dream, and to have fulfilled it.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.
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I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
