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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Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out.
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It's important to understand that you have to dedicate time to your sponsors, to have relationships with the people and the media, but it is also hard when you are first coming up and your primary focus is on tennis.
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I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying - I don't know about harmonies, or anything, so if I'm composing a song, it's really hard.
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I've found that the more honest and true you are and can talk about a character and people's experiences, it's less ostracizing. It actually has the opposite effect than one would think. It makes the characters and the story more inclusive.
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I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.
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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
