Michael Caine Quotes
In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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Just look at 'K-pop' - who would've expected American fans to embrace it? It's really cool to be one of those artists who can break through the American market. I'm not trying to conquer America; I just want to make music and see if people like it.
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Nerves are good. They keep you alive.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.
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Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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If the books are selling, the money will follow.
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I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
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Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.
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My job, I thought, is to demonstrate that one can remain healthy. Demonstrate it to myself, no one else. If I am exposed to lizards, I will fight the lizards. If I am exposed to ants, I will fight the ants. If I am exposed to thieves, I will fight the thieves. If I am exposed to myself, I will fight myself.
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I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust-a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.
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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.
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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
