Viggo Mortensen Quotes

Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.

Viggo Mortensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 20, 1958

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I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'

Jennifer Weiner

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I've given myself permission to say whatever's on my mind when I'm on stage.

Andy Kindler

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The 19th-century pure capitalist model of society was a pyramid, concentrations of enormous wealth in a small group at the top, a not very big middle-class in the middle, and an enormous percentage of the population in the bottom part of the pyramid.

John Ralston Saul

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The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

Sun Tzu

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Privately, we always called 'Hill Street' 'Cop Soap.'

Steven Bochco

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I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

Rosanne Cash

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I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that. But I do know this: that in his heart, he's not an American. He's just not an American.

Mike Coffman

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The longer it takes to respond to a major development or crisis, the higher the chance of violence being seen as the only answer.

Miroslav Lajcak

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There are a lot of people who go to Washington or go to their state houses with a personal ambition in mind.

Mitt Romney

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Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.

Judith Martin

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Nationally, the share of mortgages that are underwater fell by about one-half between 2011 and 2014.

Janet Yellen

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I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.

Chino Moreno

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