Christopher Walken Quotes

I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.

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• Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • World
  • Effect
  • Buddhism

• I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Always
  • Effort
  • Try

• I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Pain
  • Moves
  • Talks

• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Party
  • Become
  • Democrats

• Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Different
  • Single
  • New

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Part
  • Taxes
  • Payment

• Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Time
  • Desire

• I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Evil
  • Gun
  • Afraid

• Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.

  

  Warren G
  • Work
  • Brother
  • Chance

• All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Wisdom
  • Roots

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Great
  • Me
  • Singing

• It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Sex

• The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Life
  • Men
  • Poet

• I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beyonce

• The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Up
  • Growth

• My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • World
  • Music
  • School

• I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.

  

  John Bolton
  • People
  • Party

• Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Suffering

• Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• I can't imagine how much time it took Matt Bucy to cut up 'The Wizard of Oz' and reassemble every word of dialog into alphabetical order. The resulting movie is called 'Of Oz the Wizard.'

  

  Mark Frauenfelder
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.

  

  Christopher Walken
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