Michael Caine Quotes

80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.

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• The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Family
  • Past
  • Changes

• You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment with your scene partner. You don't want to let your own self-consciousness block the flow of creativity that's coming out so that you can act and react, and play what the scene is all about.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Important
  • Yourself
  • Creativity

• As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Want
  • Control
  • Employees

• 'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Actor
  • Conversation

• It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Fun
  • Two
  • Cartoon

• I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Book
  • Boxes
  • Decorating

• What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

  

  Ed Wood
  • You
  • Know
  • Suspension

• Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Magic
  • Doing
  • Volunteer

• I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Money
  • Think
  • Free

• I wanted to write about the things that I love.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Love
  • Things
  • Write

• Apparently, Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Father
  • Confidence
  • Cat

• The windows of my soul are made of one way glassDon't bother looking into my eyesIf there's something you want to know - just ask.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Soul

• I try and keep an ear out and keep an open mind and enjoy something where I don't know what the hell is going on inside of it. That's what I really get out of it. Because to me it's new. That's what I get out of it. That joyful feeling of you don't know what's going to happen next.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.

  

  Tyler Perry
  • Life
  • Art
  • Father

• The key to understanding Crowley is the same as the key to understanding the Marquis de Sade. Both wasted an immense amount of energy screaming defiance at the authority they resented so much, and lacked the insight to see that they were shaking their fists as at abstraction.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Energy
  • Understanding

• It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Peace

• Are these signs of hope, or do we deceive ourselves by wishing them to be?

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Hope

• I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.

  

  Brian Jacques
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Writing

• Rule #3 - It's okay to believe yourself better than the rest of the planet, so long as you keep it to yourself.

  

  Bisco Hatori
  • Believe
  • Rule
  • Planet

• Once Joe Paterno learned that his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was showering with a young boy in the Penn State football locker room, he had two choices: think of the child as his own and call police. Or not. He chose the latter.

  

  Christine Pelosi
  • Football
  • Choices
  • Boy

• Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Life
  • Week
  • Hours

• You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Together
  • Brother

• The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a historical fact, "Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow, and "True History of the Kelly Gang" by Peter Carey.

  

  Laila Lalami
  • Book
  • History
  • True

• 80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Percent
  • Gang