Michael Caine Quotes
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner note and listened to records. My parents are rock fans.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don't care who they are. I don't quantify people by celebrity.
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When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.
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I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.
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Societies in which men were unwilling to dispose of themselves in war were societies that usually got disposed of. Societies that were protected were protected by killers, which is why I call the traditional role of men the role of killer-protector.
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Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.
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If America is about anything, she is about freedom. We have seen in the burgeoning Department of Homeland Security and at our airports and in the color-coded alerts the beginning of the erosion of that freedom.
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An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.
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Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.
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I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.
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I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most.
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I've never been comfortable being a pawn. I work with brands where I feel like I can have my say and companies that I'm proud to be in a relationship with. Partnerships take a lot of time. If I am going to put my name and my face and my energy behind something, I want it to be authentic.
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If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.
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The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.
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So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.
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With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
