Viggo Mortensen Quotes
'The Road' was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me – I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I – I might want to march out on that.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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I don't know about you, but all this modern technology that's supposed to save us time and effort has actually ended up making things more complicated in my life, eating up extra time.
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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A guitar is a guitar. Whether it was made yesterday or 51 years ago, if it's good, it will stand the test of time.
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It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.
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'The Road' was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.
