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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A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.
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My emotions overload because there is no hand to hold, there’s no shoulder here to lean on; I’m walking all on my own.
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I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then.
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Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
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We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.
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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.
