Christopher Walken Quotes
I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
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I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
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There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.
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I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.
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I don't believe in the afterlife.
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Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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The world does not have an Islam problem; the world has a dignity problem.
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I hold that if companies are attacked simply because they are big then an attack on efficiency must be a corollary of that attack. If we penalize efficiency, how can we as a nation compete in the economy of the world at large?
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It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
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'There's no free will,' says the philosopher; 'To hang is most unjust.''There is no free will,' assents the officer; 'We hang because we must.'
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I've learnt that you shouldn't take people seriously, whether they praise you or trash you.
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I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.
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An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.
