"You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name……" — Viggo Mortensen
"You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old."
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159 Quotes by Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen has 159 quotes on this site.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on…
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Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too.
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We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher…
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You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.
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To find a good story, you're generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn't mind…
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You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
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In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy…
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I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing…
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I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I've also lived in Denmark,…
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As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer…
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Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be…
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I look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine -…
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More Denmark Quotes
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Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the…
— Isak Dinesen
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I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this…
— Montel Williams
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I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to…
— Helle Thorning-Schmidt
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...Denmark should be a green and sustainable society with a visionary climate and energy policy...The answer to these challenges lies…
— Unknown Author
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Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower…
— Steven Morrissey
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The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in…
— Flemming Rose
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I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
— Mads Mikkelsen
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With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when…
— Larry Holmes
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My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.
— Ted Shackelford
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Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds…
— Edward Abbey
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English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind.
— Pranab Mukherjee
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