Michael Caine Quotes
Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'
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If you step out and do what you feel is right... and you're not attacking a person, and you're attacking a process, and you're attacking the status quo... and if somebody wants to hold a grudge against me, that's on them. It's not on me, and I'm going to do what I think is right.
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We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness 'to act alone,' its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.
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We have a saying in the union: 'If a fellow looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, the possibility is that he is a duck.' That is the way with a Communist. If the guy does everything that the party does, the prospects are very good that he is a party member or fellow traveler.
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If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.
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When my mother did fittings for her clients, I was hiding, looking at these beautiful ladies try on these fantastic clothes. I was dreaming as a small child to try these clothes on myself.
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When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.
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The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.
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I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
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It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
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A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
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Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.
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If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you.
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Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.
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I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk. I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.
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... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.
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Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.
