Michael Caine Quotes
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
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If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.
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If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.
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I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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Actually, I played Pontius Pilate as nice. An actor spends his life thinking he is Christ, and then he gets to play the character that killed him.
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I played a tomboy character in 'Dohchay.'
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Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
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If you're talking down to the audience, no matter how brutish it is, they know it and they hate you for it.
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I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.
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I've always played very human sort of characters.
