Michael Caine Quotes
I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
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Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
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I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
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Never give up, and never give in.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.
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When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
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I like boring golf. That's kind of what butters my bread.
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
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Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
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Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.
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I've always wanted to do a shoot with snakes - big snakes, like pythons.
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Don't get disillusioned, no don't expect too much Cause if what you have is all you can get Just keep on trying It just ain't happened yet.
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I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.
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I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.
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One night a guy hit his head on a welding gun. He went to his knees. He was bleeding like a pig, blood was oozing out. So I stopped the line for a second and ran over to help him. The foreman turned the line on again, he almost stepped on the guy. That's the first thing they always do. They didn't even call an ambulance. The guy walked to the medic department -- that's about half a mile -- he had about five stitches put in his head. The foreman didn't say anything. He just turned the line on. You're nothing to any of them.
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Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
