Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
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You're always thinking, What's the next move - the career, the money.
