Michael Caine Quotes
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
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I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.
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Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
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Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.
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The Internet's proven to be a pretty big deal for global society, and Bitcoin could basically be thought of as the Internet, applied to money.
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A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
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Charity knew that she had to be up early in the morning. And she knew that a weepy, silly, ridiculously old-fashioned love story was not the thing to watch with a broken heart. Nevertheless, she watched. And wept. And was still smiling when she fell asleep at three o'clock in the morning, with the remote in her hand and the telly still going.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
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Every house has its own private cup of sorrow.
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Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
