Michael Caine Quotes

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

Michael Caine

• World
• Successful
• Secret
• Window
• Passing
• Fancy

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• If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.

  

  Larry King
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• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

  

  Samuel Lover
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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.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.

  

  Adam Beach
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• With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.

  

  BeBe Winans
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• I am always fascinated by India.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • India
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• A 501(c)3 can't lobby. A 501(c)3 can't invest in a company or build an industry. It may be that the only way to deal with climate change is to create an industry or build companies.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • May
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• With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
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• My show in Egypt was called, 'The Show,' or, 'Al Bernameg' in Arabic. Basically, it was a political satire show. It started on Internet by three, four-minute episodes, and then it evolved into a live show in a theater, which was something that was unprecedented in the Arab world.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • World
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• For me, life is about experiencing many new things and working with good people, working on good projects, and in general, just having any kind of job.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Life
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• How completely, how thoroughly he has stolen my child. I have never even tried to forgive him.

  

  Octavia E. Butler

• I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy's basement.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • People
  • Money
  • Father

• My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Respect

• I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.

  

  Bjork
  • Hiking
  • Iceland

• My first letter of acceptance, to UMass - Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Acceptance

• I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • People

• I find it a very, very powerful thing to be yourself and not to try and be something else and to use that as your biggest shield and your biggest attack in the world - to just be you.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • World
  • Powerful

• We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Ignorance
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  • Prevail

• I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who
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• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Remember
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  • Problem

• I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Talking

• That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • World
  • Problems
  • Show Business

• I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

  

  Michael Caine
  • World
  • Successful
  • Secret