Viggo Mortensen Quotes
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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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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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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There is something like destiny. I don't really care if people doubt or express shock over whether our marriage will work.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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Some people who like dogs don't like cats, but I'm not like that.
