Viggo Mortensen Quotes
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.
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A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.
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Not all political actors share our vision of fighting terrorism, lessening tensions in the region and focusing on building the economy. It is natural that they would challenge the government, but we have fought every challenge effectively. The daily ups and down of democracy should not be interpreted as lack of stability.
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The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.
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We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.
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I think it’s important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.
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I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.
