Viggo Mortensen Quotes
If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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I have always loathed working out.
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
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For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.
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From everything I can read about Aussie spiders, it seems like all they really like doing is hiding in your house or garden or car until you 'accidentally' disturb them - probably by doing something crazy like putting on the shoe they are lurking in - and they can officially bite you to pieces.
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You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.
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I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.
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I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.
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I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
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If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
