"The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Enemy Quotes #Church Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.”
“He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.”
“The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else.”
“What excites me and what I find most compelling is clearly not what excites other artists. It comes from my own idiosyncratic background and what I'm drawn to. Maybe this is a result of having lived in Naples during a formative period of time. I'm interested in telling a unique story in a very intense way.”
“I played Lucifer once, which is sort of a difficult character to research. I thought to myself, "We all have the potential to be selfish, to be cruel - at least to think evil thoughts, even if we don't ever act out on them. Even if we don't ever think we behave badly, we probably do more than we realize."”

Source : "Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.
“There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground”
“Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.”
“I dare to dream greatly; I dare to fail greatly. I dare to tolerate the ashes of my unfulfilled dreams, for I may dream again. I dare not tolerate the ashes of my unfulfilled life, for I may never live again.”

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