Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make sure her children - me, my five brothers, and three sisters - could eat and have a safe place to sleep. We hardly saw her.
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I often get painted as the guy who's trying to tell other people what to make and what to like, and that's really not my goal, but I believe so passionately that games can be more than a lot of people think they can.
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What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.
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Ethereum has taken what was a four-function calculator of a programming language in Bitcoin and turned it into a full-fledged computer.
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The stories are what they are in my head. They take their own course and refuse to be influenced by anything or anybody. So I just record what I see and hope that people like it.
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I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.
