Viggo Mortensen Quotes
Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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A lot of cats are not that social.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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Yeah, I definitely want to find that right person and fall in love and have kids someday.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
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Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.
