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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I'm not fighting for the Marlboro-ization of marijuana.
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At our base level we are animals. And so, my theory is that women are only considered attractive as long as they look fertile because we, as humans, are made to reproduce and move on. And so we kind of can't ever get away from our animalistic nature, in a way.
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I am not in Us Weekly. I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.
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Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.
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I would like to be remembered as the reporter who snuck back stage to all the off-limits shows, be it the Vatican dressing room, the Pentagon war room, or the Celtics locker room. Some curtains ought never to be pulled back; others deserve to be ripped down. When appropriate, I want to be the curtain remover.
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I've always played very human sort of characters.
