Michael Caine Quotes
What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
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I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
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The Farmer will never be happy again;He carries his heart in his boots;For either the rain is destroying his grainOr the drought is destroying his roots.
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I see evidence of my own racist brainwashing when exploring the landscape of current foreign policy. (about North Korea)
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All I ever wanted was to be a sexy bride, and actually, I think I've turned into a romantic bride.
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It wasn’t so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.
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The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.
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[With Donald Trump] we are moving into an era where a lot of people get their information through tweets and sound bites and some headline that comes over their phone.
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The philosophy of Kant's great successors was consciously a synthesis of Spinoza's and Kant's philosophies. Spinoza's characteristic contribution to this synthesis was a novel conception of God. He thus showed the way toward a new religion or religiousness which was to inspire a wholly new kind of society, a new kind of Church.
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What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
