Viggo Mortensen Quotes
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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The last few years haven't been as good so I can fly under the radar, come in and do the best I can and I don't have all these high hopes placed on me.
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Business is the most powerful force in society. It has the highest potential for solving social problems. Once consumers saw examples of prosperous companies integrating social concerns into their business practices, they were emboldened to demand the same of other businesses. Businesses could no longer say it was impossible.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
