Michael Caine Quotes
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Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.
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I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
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I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
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The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.
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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
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Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results throughout my tenure in Congress, and it provides an ideal means for developing strategies that can garner the broad support necessary to achieve real solutions to the challenges confronting our nation.
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Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
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All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors don't know what they are talking about.
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I never sing out loud because I'm afraid people will go, 'Shut up!'
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The mid-eighteen-thirties marked the rise of eugenics and racialism, with phrenology emerging as just one of the many pseudosciences that sought to enact, reinforce, and restrict racial difference.
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I think when an actor feels like they're being watched with great sensitivity and a subtle eye and a nose for truthfulness, that has some effect.
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I'm not afraid of anything. That's just the way I am.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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When a locked-room mystery doesn't work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room.
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It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.
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The best thing about wearing black is that you can hide pretty easily, unless you're in like Hawaii, then you can't hide.
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I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
