Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to experience how entrepreneurship works, and you guide them toward the subjects or areas they seem to show an interest in.
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I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
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I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make a little tin humanist in the Obama West Wing think he's admiral of the Uzbek Navy.
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I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
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I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
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The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.
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I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.
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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
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I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.
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Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.
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I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that.
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America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.
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During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse, a certain ethics of the intellectual. One had to be on familiar terms with Marx, not let one's dreams stray too far from Freud.... These were therequirements that made the strange occupation of writing and speaking a measure of truth about oneself and one's time acceptable.
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When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
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Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an object of research, presents a defiant challenge to its own ingenuity.
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For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.
