Viggo Mortensen Quotes
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.
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My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too?
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Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
