Viggo Mortensen Quotes
I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.
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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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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
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Our lives teach us who we are.
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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
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Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
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When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.
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You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.
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American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.
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Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
