Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.
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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 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 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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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 lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
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A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
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It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.
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The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead.
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Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock.
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Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble...
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How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.
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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.
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For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.
