Michael Caine Quotes
I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
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I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.
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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
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I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
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Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.
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'Why do they believe that?''Because we are hackers,' Csongor said, 'and they have seen movies.'
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Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.
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I want to point out that I never been a member of Swedish Democrats. That is a factual error, whereas mine was an error more serious than that.
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You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
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People are morons. I don't do any social media stuff. I have people telling me all the time, "You should do Twitter, you should do this, you should get on Facebook." Are you insane? I'm not doing any of that crap. I stay the hell off that thing. Every once in a while, I send a business email, and that's it.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.
