Michael Caine Quotes
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don't know why I'm not. I just don't have that need. I feel like I'm one of the only people I know who doesn't do it.
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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Of course there is really vile anti-Semitism in Wagner's writings, but I can't accept the idea that characters like Beckmesser and Alberich are Jewish stereotypes in disguise. Would Beckmesser be a court councillor if he was meant to be a Jewish stereotype? No Jew could occupy such a role.
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When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
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In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.
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I hate it when everybody thinks I'm a... what's the word, a marauding mother! It's bigger than that.
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Two women? God, man. Well, I'm still living. So clearly I must've gotten away with it, when I did do it. But I don't think it's time to blow my cover now.
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I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning.
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We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
