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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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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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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'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.
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Quiet you kids. If I hear one more word, Bart doesn't get to watch cartoons, and Lisa doesn't get to go to college.
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You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast
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Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20 humorists together.
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Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
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I believe in anything that causes mass hysteria in children.
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I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.
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Wisdom is knowing when to share your wisdom and when to just keep quiet.
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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.
