Viggo Mortensen Quotes

I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.

Viggo Mortensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleBreakfastWorldSayComplain

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Jim Rohn

InspirationalFutureHappinessDesign

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

Jim Morrison

PeopleGenerationDivorceNewWant

Being gay, you're kind of forced to ask, I suppose, very existential questions from a very, very early age. Your identity becomes so important to you because you're trying to understand it, and, I think, from the age of, like, 9, you're being forced to ask questions... that other kids maybe don't have to ask.

Andrew Haigh

AgeIdentityThinkQuestionsYou

We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn't isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide.

Robert Reich

LeadershipBestWorldHidePlace

I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.

Angela Braly

PoliticianBusinessperson

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

Tom Hooper

WorkGreatYourselfMoreOpeningUp

Rosecrans is a family name - it used to be a last name in our family.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

Mary Harris Jones

LeaderAloneManBelieveStandSide

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Mary Astell

GoodWisdomGreatUnhappyTrueWit

If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.

Millie Bobby Brown

SchoolPlayEverythingUpBeen

As great as you believe your new product or company is, the world got along just fine without you. The greatest competition every startup faces is convincing consumers that there is a better solution to the problems that vex them.

Jay Samit

GreatCompetitionWorldBelieveYou

You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.

Josef Albers

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