Viggo Mortensen Quotes
In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I want to do more audio originals because I think that it is a fascinating medium. If you think about it, this is original storytelling.
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I was six when my parents divorced, and that was tough for me.
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But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.
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All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
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In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.
