Michael Caine Quotes
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
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Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.
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There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.
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For a while, he was far better than the team around him, and he could give me fits..
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I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying 'We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything.' And I'm like, 'Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did.'
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Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask people who are fourth-generation welfare recipients.
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Women know what they're doing all the time, and they're pretending that they don't.
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Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.
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I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.
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My focus is 100 percent on my day job, on the state of Arizona.
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I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.
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False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
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A case of can't do with, can't do without, that's why I married him again.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Buffy,' 'Angel' and 'Doctor Who.' People like Joss Whedon, Russell T. Davies, and Steven Moffat are really amazing about making you feel like you had a complete meal and yet leaving you hungry for more.
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My sister has been there for me through everything.
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I've been very fortunate, but it also never occurred to me that I couldn't do something or that I couldn't ask if I could try something.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.
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I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.
