Viggo Mortensen Quotes

If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.

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• Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Great
  • Different
  • Writing

• I'm not Cinderella.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Cinderella

• I think people appreciate honesty.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Think
  • Honesty

• I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

  

  Ulrich Walter
  • Different
  • May
  • Think

• In Germany I am not so famous.

  

  Hans Berger
  • Famous
  • Germany

• My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Father

• I don't care about revenues.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Care
  • About

• You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Me
  • Next
  • Project

• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Faith

• The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Heart
  • Brave
  • Judgment

• Every note is a lifetime for itself.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Lifetime
  • Itself
  • Note

• I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.

  

  Fleur East
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

• Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Way
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• We have to understand that content is king now. And it doesn't matter what the source of the content and where it's coming from, as long as it is workable.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Long
  • King
  • Understand

• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Light
  • End
  • Train

• I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Like
  • Hands
  • Talking

• Rush Limbaugh, who has made a career preaching that anybody who does drugs has got to go right to jail - do not pass go, no questions asked, right to jail - gets caught doing thirty oxycontin a day. Thirty oxycontin?! Do you have any idea how high that is?! I don't, and I've been pretty high!

  

  Bill Maher
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Career

• I jumped up on the benches, roared out, 'Damn you, you rascals!', hissed and was in the greatest rage. ... I hated the English; I wished from my soul that the Union was broke and that we might give them another battle of Bannockburn.

  

  James Boswell
  • Up
  • Soul
  • English

• High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path.

  

  Anthony Albanese
  • High
  • Game
  • Travel

• Photography is more than a window for me. Photography is more like a space that tries to capture situations.

  

  Gabriel Orozco
  • Trying
  • Space
  • Photography

• If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.

  

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