Michael Caine Quotes
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
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Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
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My role models have kept on changing.
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I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.
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Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.
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'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.
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My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
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When you're playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but part of the joy of it is you get to not be yourself.
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I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
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That was a documentary!
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Shoot me in the chest.
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Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again.
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Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.
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At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
