Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.

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• Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Fantasy
  • Only

• Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Money
  • Think
  • Law

• There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Now
  • Expression

• I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • War
  • Want

• People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mistake

• Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Great
  • Give
  • Floyd

• We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Time
  • Men
  • Live

• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Up
  • Never
  • Child

• If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Up
  • Things
  • Worse

• Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Time
  • First
  • Programming

• IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Age
  • Restaurant

• A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Long
  • Character
  • Movie

• There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Country
  • Story
  • Everyday

• He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Present
  • Religion
  • Facts

• Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

  

  Quintilian
  • Wish
  • Wise
  • Fools

• In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Ambition
  • Modern
  • Ideals

• There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Home
  • Emotional
  • Memories

• Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Good
  • Anger

• I am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • School
  • High
  • Girl

• It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.

  

  Boris Karloff
  • Boy
  • Films
  • Horror

• One great thing about my mom, about the business, is that she has a really great head on her shoulders about everything and always has been 100 percent about the music and not about the other junk.

  

  Aubrie Sellers
  • Great
  • Music
  • She

• When you give your children certain life lessons, and they come and ask you for additional advice, you say to yourself, 'I've done my job,' and you'll continue to do your job.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Life
  • Children
  • Done

• I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Time
  • Crying