Michael Caine Quotes
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
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We're fabricating a state-of-the-art concessions system for our touring, so we can feed the people and give them everything they need without having to wait on it.
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Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.
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Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.
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There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.
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...and then this amazing creature -to whom no one has ever said 'Shah!' or 'I only hope your children will do the same to you someday!'
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I just couldn't imagine hitting a child. But in 'The Slap' it's an extreme situation. You have to ask yourself - would you step in if a child was out of control?
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Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
