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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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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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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God shows us in Christ what he would have to do if he were to punish us for our sins.
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Truly wealthy people develop the habit of "getting rich slow" rather than "getting rich quick." To assure this, they have two rules with regard to money. Rule number one: Don't lose money. Rule number two: If ever you feel tempted, refer back to rule number one, "don't lose money."
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People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.
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A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.
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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.
