Viggo Mortensen Quotes

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.

Viggo Mortensen

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• I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
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• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
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• If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.

  

  Samantha Power
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  • Control
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• Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

  

  Wendell Phillips
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• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
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  • Okay
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• Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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• My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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• I don't like to direct myself.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Direct

• I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Competing

• It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Great
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• I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Wedding
  • White
  • Dress

• I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Help
  • Game

• In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Literature

• I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Mind
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  • Reading

• We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Thinking
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  • Football

• Global terror does not respect national boundaries.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Respect
  • Boundaries
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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  

  Lao Tzu
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  • Plans

• When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.

  

  Jason Lee
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• The pressure of 'what are you going to do?' makes everyone feel like they haven't done anything yet.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Done
  • Feel
  • Pressure

• I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Thug

• Pity him who lives at homeHappy with his life,Without a dream, a flexing of wings,To make him relinquishEven the warmest ember of his hearth!Pity him who is happy!He lives because life lasts.Nothing within him whispersMore than the primeval law:That life leads to the grave.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Dream

• Our strategy is how we cope--how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done and how, and to whom and towhom and to whom, daily deciding/risking who it is we can call an ally, call a friend (whatever that person's skin, sex or sexuality). We are women without a line. We are women who contradict each other.

  

  Cherrie Moraga
  • Women
  • Done
  • Friend

• You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Real
  • She