Michael Caine Quotes
There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
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I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.
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I want to be like the patron saint of reality.
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I am not taking anything for granted.
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I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.
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Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
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I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.
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Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.
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Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.
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Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.
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I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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What are you waiting for in order to give up?
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I strictly want to beat every opponent I face, whether it's for a title or for a small show. The only thing for me is winning my fights and being the best athlete I can be.
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When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.
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There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.
