Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I've never been a partier.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that allows me to explain my philosophy and spirituality.
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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'Wicked' has been one of the biggest hits in Los Angeles theatre history, and we are thrilled that theatergoers here have embraced the musical and welcomed us so heartily.
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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.
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I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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I am backing Remain for a very simple reason: it is the best way of protecting jobs, wages and rights for working people.
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I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.
