Michael Caine Quotes
I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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I try to keep a low profile.
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November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.
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Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.
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It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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I try to protect my loved ones, the people I share my life with, because they don't have a public life like me. I want to keep their lives private out of respect for them.
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I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'
