Viggo Mortensen Quotes
I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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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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If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.
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I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
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Ronaldo used to be my neighbour, and he passed my house every day. We always greeted each other.
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I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.
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The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which are more sure and solid than all experience and even life itself.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
