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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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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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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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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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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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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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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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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If I'm garbage you're a bunch of maggots.
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We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That's been the misconception. It's all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home.
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And the age difference – you've got women in their late 50s and ... kids just going into the sixth grade. The people that are Hootie fans are Hootie fans. They love us, and we love playing for them. We definitely don't do this for any other reason.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
