Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

When I decide to do something, I stick with it, total commitment.

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• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Woman
  • Choice
  • Independence

• All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Money
  • Government
  • Problems

• I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • New

• I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Guy
  • White
  • Next

• It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.

  

  Wale
  • Cool
  • Internet
  • Insult

• Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Politics
  • Better

• To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Candle

• Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Think
  • Humor

• I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Comic
  • Notice

• I'm not graceful.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Graceful

• I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Thinking
  • Project
  • Committing

• The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • First
  • Learned
  • Theme

• A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.

  

  Washed Out
  • Couple
  • Doing
  • First

• I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Family
  • Home
  • Him

• I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • Want
  • Amazing

• I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Golf

• Whether you watch 'Law and Order' all the time or not, everyone knows what it looks like. Everyone knows what the courtroom looks like, what the police precinct looks like.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Time
  • Law
  • Police

• Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

  

  Alexis Herman
  • Good
  • Today
  • College

• If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Night
  • Light

• Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Up
  • Commitment
  • Mirror

• We're teachers, and we have a commitment." "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people?

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • People
  • Live
  • Die

• In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • Garden
  • Avant-Garde

• When I decide to do something, I stick with it, total commitment.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Commitment