Christopher Walken Quotes

I love spaghetti. And I like to cook spaghetti. And I used to eat it every day. I weighed thirty pounds more than I do now. You can't - you can't do that.

Christopher Walken

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• For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Society
  • Data

• We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • World
  • Believe
  • Economy

• My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Morning
  • Road
  • Son

• I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Value
  • Discipline

• The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • May
  • Full

• I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • World
  • America
  • Hope

• I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.

  

  Larry Craig
  • People
  • Work
  • Pool

• I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Brooke Shields has been a child star and has grown into an incredible actress. She is very accomplished, and I look up to her. She had a mother's sense to her.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Work
  • Entertainment
  • Singer

• Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Violence
  • Gun

• Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Long
  • Rest

• I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Myself
  • Marketing
  • Questions

• All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Up
  • Ignorance

• Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Nature
  • Survival

• I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter

• We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury.

  

  Andrew von Eschenbach
  • Health
  • Serious

• Television tends to be a more difficult medium for me to get my head around sometimes when it comes to certain things I get offered.

  

  Bill Pullman

• If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Magic

• History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there were stories to be had, and it was stories I craved.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • History
  • English
  • Down

• Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Money
  • Death
  • Sad

• The greatest time wasted, is the time getting started.

  

  Dawson Trotman
  • Greatest
  • Started
  • Wasted

• One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Things

• I love spaghetti. And I like to cook spaghetti. And I used to eat it every day. I weighed thirty pounds more than I do now. You can't - you can't do that.

  

  Christopher Walken