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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I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
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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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Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others--into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one's future.
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I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.
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I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.
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You're always thinking, What's the next move - the career, the money.
