Viggo Mortensen Quotes

I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.

Viggo Mortensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeMusicFoodBabyLanguageFirst

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

Jim Barksdale

CompeteWhereWellMeritVery

Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, 'Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.'

Maya Angelou

GodChildrenBrotherBabyBookYou

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

Robert Smith

PeopleReadingMissedSomethingAble

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

Maureen O'Hara

TravelQueenAmericaLateWay1930s

I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.

Jeffrey Skoll

CommunityTrustSmallYouPhone

The louder I sang, the more it brought out the basic quality of the voice.

Stephen Costello

QualityVoiceMoreOutBasicLouder

If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won't read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken.

Sonya Hartnett

ScienceBrokenRulesI CanWillLit

I come from a place where when you shake someone's hand, it is a deal.

Troy Carter

SomeoneYouPlaceHandWhereDeal

Life can be either of two things: What it makes of you or what you make of it.

Rodney Crowell

LifeYouTwoThingsMakeEither

To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman has been my mission.

Ruth Bernhard

WomanMissionElevateImageTimeless

My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.

Martina McBride

MusicMemoriesLearnCountryListen

Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age.

Michael K. Powell

LoveAgeGreatAmbitionInformation

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