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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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Praxagora: I want all to have a share of everything and all property to be in common; there will no longer be either rich or poor; ... I shall begin by making land, money, everything that is private property, common to all. ... Blepyrus: But who will till the soil? Praxagora: The slaves. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women's Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity, my father decided that there was no choice but for him to quit his despised job and take me and my brother to the beach for at least the entire summer and possibly longer.
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Eyes I dare not meet in dreamsIn death's dream kingdom´These do not appear:There, the eyes areSunlight on a broken columnThere, is a tree swingingAnd voices areIn the wind's singingMore distant and more solemnThan a fading star.
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There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."
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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.
