Michael Caine Quotes
I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
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Relationships are hard, so you have to know what type of man you want by your side and what their values are, what is important in his life.
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After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.
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I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.
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Be held truthful that your lies may count.
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The attack on Americans in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 is a stark reminder that our nation must remain vigilant in protecting our citizens from the threat of Al-Qaeda and similar extremist terrorist entities around the world.
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To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.
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I went to a very academic school, but I never really quite... I think because not that many people were particular creative or arty, I felt a little bit different.
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A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.
