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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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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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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I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
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There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.
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The closing of ash basins is really part of decommissioning a coal plant.
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If you have the tendency to repress your anger, you have lost touch with an important part of yourself. Getting angry is a way to gain back that part of yourself by asserting your rights, expressing your displeasure with a situation, and letting others know how you wish to be treated. It can motivate you to make needed changes in a relationship or other areas of your life. Finally it can let others know that you expect to be respected and treated fairly.
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Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
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You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.
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I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.
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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.
