Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.
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I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.
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A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music.
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What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.
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My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.
