Viggo Mortensen Quotes
You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one.
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And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've stayed focused on the work so much that I haven't really noticed my life start to change except for I've gotten busier.
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If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.
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There is no they, only us. We are part of a large fellowship called the human race. We all hurt the same. We all love the same. We all bleed the same. We all need understanding and care. We can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of the same vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.
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You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
