Christopher Walken Quotes
Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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I've made a lifetime commitment to the union movement and to public education.
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KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
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At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.
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People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
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With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level was lower.
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The British Fashion Awards gives us the chance to commend not only the winners but celebrate all of the individuals that contribute to the incredible achievements that make London the best fashion destination in the world.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
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For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
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If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you.
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When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, you can use that. You can use that platform for good.
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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
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Mobs have passions, not brains.
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There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return. (Hays translation)
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Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
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I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.
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In the East — in Greece and Syria and Egypt — the Romans had conquered countries which had ancient and splendid traditions, and were more civilized than their conquerors.
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Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.
