Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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Stay away from the sun and remember the skin on a woman's neck, hands and face is sensitive and ages easily, so apply a high SPF sunscreen on those areas.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
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What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.
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Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.
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The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
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I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.
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Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.
