Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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I will forever be proud to call myself a Bruin and will never forget the memories that were made here.
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.
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The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
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We have this film that we hope to finance, it's called 'Southern Rights.' It's a documentary about segregated proms that are still happening in the South of America. So there's a black prom and a white prom, so we hope to finance a film soon about that.
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There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.
