Viggo Mortensen Quotes
I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.Viggo Mortensen
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
Writers should provoke disagreement.
V. S. Naipaul -
Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
Ibrahim Hooper -
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung -
My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
Vanessa Paradis
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
Laura Dern -
Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
Maajid Nawaz -
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
Oriana Fallaci -
I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.
Pam Dawber -
If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
Joanne Rowling -
I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.
Najib Razak
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
Quincy Jones -
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.
Ira Glass -
I was born free.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
Fiona Apple -
It was one of those things that I set forth as a goal after my surgery. I have been working very hard with the trainers and the team personnel.
Pablo Sandoval -
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
Oliver Herford
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In them days I just as soon died -- except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.
Saunders Teddell -
Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a level and rational playing field on which they can compete to make the next fortunes.
Van Jones -
Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.
Mahatma Gandhi -
For every laugh, there should be a tear.
Walt Disney -
There was violence because first of all, there were ethnic differences and names. If you were small, they called you a runt, and you had to do something about that even if there were five other guys.
Jack Kirby -
I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
Viggo Mortensen