Michael Caine Quotes

I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

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• The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Life
  • High
  • Excellence

• I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Education

• They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Acting
  • Same
  • Laws

• To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Human
  • Strive
  • Conquer

• I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

  

  Ed Helms
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• I don't have any irrational fears. Obviously, if I was walking through the outback, and I saw a snake, I wouldn't go up and stroke it, but I wouldn't run screaming from it, either.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Up
  • Walking
  • Run

• Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I would like to explore India. I will keep coming back. This is the closest I can get to home.

  

  M.I.A.
  • World
  • Home
  • Explore

• The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Real
  • Knowledge
  • Common

• We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those loopholes closed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Interest
  • Special
  • Taxes

• My music already has this oldish kind of quality to it, like you don't necessarily know what era it was recorded in, so it all kind of felt surreal and weird. Night after night when I played live, I was really trying to figure it out in real time, and I still don't know what effect I'm going for or what effect I actually achieve. Looking back, I feel like it would be arrogant of me not to appreciate the fact that I've been able to do whatever I want and still have an audience come see me.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Time
  • Music
  • Live

• You can do it if you believe you can.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • Can Do

• The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • World
  • Experience
  • War

• Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Up
  • Business
  • Character

• From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a

  

  Paige Bradley
  • World
  • Race
  • Numbers

• I believe ghost story writing is a dying art.

  

  H. Russell Wakefield
  • Art
  • Story
  • Dying

• Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Kind
  • Chance
  • Kindness

• You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • New York
  • Oklahoma
  • Walters

• I'm definitely suspicious of girls. I've been suspicious of girls my whole life, though, so it's not anything new.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Whole

• I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Life
  • Whole

• The designs are more about the whole thing rather than the details, and if I were to do the big shapes I do, color would maybe be too much. Pink or red would push it all over the edge.

  

  Gareth Pugh
  • Design
  • Details
  • Whole

• I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

  

  Michael Caine
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