Michael Caine Quotes
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
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We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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I like things all shined up and rocking with hooky pop choruses.
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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When you say, 'I'm going to sing it once, and everyone is going to hear it forever,' that's kind of frightening.
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As an actor, you're continually riding the waves of whether you're in or out, getting work or not getting work, and Kazan was really a guy who was condemned into not working and looking to go deep into someplace and just live inside his art.
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I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't have the instrument or the discipline. The road for opera singers is more difficult than for actors.
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When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education.
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A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
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There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.
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Everybody has an opportunity in America. I don't care if guys whine and complain about this or that. You know, no country affords its inhabitants the opportunities that the U.S.A. gives to its people.
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I'm not holding fast to my position, but to respect the will of the people that decided to choose Saddam Hussein as the leader of the revolution. Therefore, when I say president of the Republic of Iraq, it's not a formality or a holding fast to a position, but rather to reiterate to the Iraqi people that I respect its will.
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The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.
