Christopher Walken Quotes
I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.
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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
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'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'
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The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.
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Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.
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There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.
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I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
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This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?
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The major abstraction is the idea of man And major man is its exponent, abler In the abstract than in his singular, More fecund as principle than particle
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He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.
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To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded.
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In comedy it helps if there's a friendly atmosphere on the set.
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I was carrying my friend in his casket to put him in the hearse, and I was thinking, 'I need to write a song for this guy, because he always told me I would have a No. 1 song.'
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Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them. Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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I love going to karaoke with friends if I'm having a really tough time.
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I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.
