Michael Caine Quotes

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

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• But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Nature

• We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Very
  • Fortunate
  • Were

• All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?

  

  Garth Stein
  • Game
  • Interesting
  • Speak

• The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Underdog
  • Lunatic
  • Wags

• The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Organization

• Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Opportunity
  • Practice

• Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Children
  • Faith
  • Value

• As an actor, you're supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the '90s, I wasn't really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Different
  • Light
  • Challenge

• I helped my dad do landscaping from when I was 14, and then every summer when I'd come home for college, I'd play on a travel baseball team, but during the day, I'd do landscaping.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Home
  • Team
  • Dad

• Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • Character

• I started doing home brew stuff with my dad when I was younger.

  

  Dylan Sprouse
  • Home
  • Dad

• I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Remember

• John Kerry was officially endorsed by Dick Gephardt, and Kerry said, 'What did I ever do to you?'

  

  Craig Kilborn

• I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.

  

  Annie Baker
  • Writing
  • College

• I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.

  

  John Bonham Led Zeppelin
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader's Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • People
  • She
  • Job

• People tell me, 'You better lose weight if you want to run for mayor.' I said, 'I got the Chris Christie look.'

  

  John Catsimatidis
  • People

• Can't trust a fascist-truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

  

  Matthew Stover
  • Truth
  • Trust
  • Sacrifice

• I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Movies
  • Make
  • Dishes

• It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Oysters
  • Cocktails
  • Shellfish

• I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Good
  • Country
  • School

• There is absolutely a side of me that people don't know. I'm not myself on Snapchat or Instagram. That's totally not me.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • People

• I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

  

  Michael Caine
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