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

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• If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Game
  • Win
  • Problems

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

  

  Larry King
  • Mind
  • Friend
  • Doubt

• I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

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

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Wise
  • Circumstances
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• I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Experience
  • Religious
  • Never

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• 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
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

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

  

  Adam Beach
  • You
  • Doing
  • Nation

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

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Think
  • Growing
  • Evolution

• I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Reason
  • Film
  • Visual

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

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Political
  • Events
  • Meet

• I am always fascinated by India.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • India
  • Fascinated

• 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
  • Change
  • Climate Change

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

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Society
  • Years
  • Democratic

• 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
  • Live
  • Political

• 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
  • Good

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

  

  Octavia E. Butler

• The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • Truth

• 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 see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Stories
  • West

• My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!

  

  Jeff Foxworthy
  • World
  • She
  • Car

• The chaos in our world may have brought you close to despair, but if you are willing to look at reasons for hope, perhaps you are ready for the 'Aquarian Conspiracy.'

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • World
  • May
  • Hope

• 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