Viggo Mortensen Quotes
I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have learned to be patient.
-
As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
-
There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
-
When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
-
When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
-
Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
-
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
-
The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
-
Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
-
You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
-
Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
-
After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
-
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
-
I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
-
I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
-
So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
-
Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
-
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
-
A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is not admissible amongst us.
-
Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
-
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
-
The input of Idle No More has been a lightning rod for people who were already thinking this way. We are reaching clarities on bigger issues like fracking and GMOs and climate change.
-
What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.
-
I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
