Michael Caine Quotes

I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

Michael Caine

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• It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Important
  • Money
  • Gold

• I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Love
  • Power

• I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Learn
  • Horse
  • Ride

• I'm a great jazz fan.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Great
  • Jazz
  • Fan

• I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Power
  • Game

• As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Always
  • Trends
  • Just Because

• If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• The result, the Walker Colt, was one of the most effective and deadly pieces of technology ever devised, one that would soon kill more men in combat than any sidearm since the Roman short sword.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Men
  • Technology
  • Pieces

• Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Team
  • Die
  • Heal

• I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • College
  • Football
  • inspirational

• There is no gardening without humility

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Humility
  • Gardening

• The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America because sometimes you just have to respond quickly and not everything that is a danger can be publicized and be subject to open debate, but there have to be some guardrails.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • President
  • Branches

• Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment to the labor force, long-term unemployment may ultimately reduce the productive capacity of our economy.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Long
  • May
  • Economy

• I'm going forward, so my clothing line is kind of the physicalization of that. The idea of diversity, of uniqueness, of individuality - that's what this is all about.

  

  Zendaya
  • Ideas
  • Diversity
  • Clothing line

• Control, edit and distill.

  

  Van Day Truex
  • Control

• You forget all of it anyway. . . You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. . . You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Smart

• Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Country
  • Summer
  • Forget

• Everybody has a line. It doesn't matter how you're dressed onstage or what you say in your songs, that doesn't give anybody the right to invade your personal space.

  

  Lzzy Hale
  • Song
  • Giving
  • Space

• You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Nation
  • Countries
  • Know Me

• It's been really important to me to create moments where there's a breath or moments where there's a laugh or moments where there's real life that's allowed to seep in through the cracks of whatever melodrama is happening, because that's what does happen in life.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Moments

• I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Laughing
  • Comic
  • Frustrated