Viggo Mortensen Quotes
'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
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Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
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Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.
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Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
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I bought a 1964 Bentley for $1,600 and re-built it over five years. When I drove it in Tokyo after that, it was the pride of the road. That car would command at least $150,000 today because 'Bikram' has restored it.
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Sharks don't particularly have a great interest in divers. It seemed that in a normal dive, I would jump in the water, and one or two gray reef sharks would swim in and kind of check me out - and then they would keep their distance. So they weren't particularly threatening or anything to be afraid of.
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Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
