Viggo Mortensen Quotes
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I've never been on a date.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.
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I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.
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I would love to be on a show where I'm allowed to play a character that you're not suspicious of, from the get-go, and who's someone that you can just relax with, take in and like, right off the bat.
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I try to play the same way, play the same way over a longer period of time.
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I'm trying to go through moral crisis myself to the highest degree that I can, to remove moral crisis from the visual vocabulary of the viewer, so that when somebody sees my work, the only thing that they see is the Sacred Heart of Jesus
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I want to be the first black man on the moon.
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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
