Viggo Mortensen Quotes

I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?

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• The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Heart
  • Think
  • Me

• I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Done
  • Identity

• I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Together
  • History

• The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Long
  • Information
  • Speed

• The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Self-knowledge

• Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • American
  • Everyday

• Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Nothing
  • Skill

• Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Fun
  • Right
  • WIld

• A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Movement
  • Sides
  • Masses

• Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • You
  • Then

• I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • People
  • Myself
  • Secrets

• Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Fire

• My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Friends
  • Know
  • Me

• What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Heaven
  • Name
  • Grandmother

• What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Start
  • Down
  • Eating

• I'm not a leading man.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Man
  • Leading
  • Leading Man

• Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Small
  • Community

• I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Stop

• My country tears of thee.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Country
  • Tears

• Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates and well-toned arms.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Heart
  • Church
  • Heaven

• We are expanding and improving the infrastructure of our relations. You must have heard about China's plans to participate in building a high-speed railway line between Moscow and Kazan in the Volga region, in central Russia. And then we plan to extend it to Kazakhstan and on to China.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Building
  • Relation
  • Speed

• Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Know
  • Thought

• I had no intention of returning into the British political debate, really at all, even though I've obviously got very strong views on it, until Brexit happened, because I think Brexit is a destiny-changing decision for my country.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Country
  • Political
  • Strong

• I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?

  

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