Viggo Mortensen Quotes
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest.
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It's not the size of the army but the power within the army.
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But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.
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Its such a process to get a show off the ground initially. And then, to already have a second season announced is a dream come true for any actor.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
