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 don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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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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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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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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At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training.
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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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I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
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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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I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
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I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself.
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Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.
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I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.
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I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
