Michael Caine Quotes
I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.
Quotes to Explore
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The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.
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Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.
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I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.
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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
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In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor's 'Barsaat,' they changed the way we looked at playback singing.
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Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.
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I played college soccer before I was hurt, and just to be able to jump back into something that you could be so competitive at or you can achieve, to get to the Paralympics, that's the first really big achievement that you can have. It's the second biggest sporting event in the world. To be a part of it and to get a medal for that, it's unreal.
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The Olympics are very important only if you gain a medal, and that's a very difficult achievement.
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Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.
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My kids are my greatest achievement.
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It's a really big deal to have a star on the Walk of Fame; it feels like an incredible achievement.
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There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly, he made me brave.
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Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically.
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Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
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I think Roosevelt had four terms, didn't he? I think we should go back to that, and we should go back to four years for a senator, four years for a congressman, and I think we'd see a huge change in our society.
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Cars mean nothing to me. I'm not a car guy.
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Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.
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All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings. This is mine.
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I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.
