Viggo Mortensen Quotes

You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.

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• I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • See
  • Crying
  • Turn

• I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • Film
  • Born

• To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

  

  Irving Wallace
  • Easy
  • Self
  • Conformity

• What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Music
  • Future
  • Amazing

• Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • World
  • Math
  • Walk

• I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Girl
  • Language
  • Gun

• All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Bad
  • Change

• Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Thoughts

• I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Best
  • Made
  • Did

• Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Think
  • Alone
  • Thought

• As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • World
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• I think it's important that things are flawed.

  

  Kate Bush
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• I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Me
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• I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Career
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  • Critics

• The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
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• Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

  

  W. C. Fields
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• I love simplicity.

  

  Zendaya
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• I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.

  

  Gail Carriger
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• Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Why
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• Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.

  

  David Cone
  • Great
  • Thinking
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• My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It's not intended to record anyone but me.

  

  Billy Sheehan
  • Home

• If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Limit

• My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Real
  • Success
  • College

• You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.

  

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