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

  

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

  

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

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• 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
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• I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

  

  Karen McCarthy
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• Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'

  

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

  

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

  

  Samuel Pepys
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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
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• I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

  

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

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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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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• Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

  

  Zell Miller
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• I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that I really got back to country. He made it fun again. To me, in country music, the rigor mortis was setting in and it just wasn't fun anymore. Garth brought everyone back over to country and made it cool again.

  

  Christian Kane
  • Music
  • Country
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• As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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• I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
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• In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.

  

  Christine Baranski
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• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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