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.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Children
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• 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?

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • People
  • Time
  • Enemy

• 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.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Live
  • Song
  • Name

• My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Heroism
  • DNA

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Home
  • Think
  • Just

• 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.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Best
  • Process

• 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.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Trying
  • Three
  • Piano

• To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Persons
  • Much
  • Often

• 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.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • God
  • Power

• A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Real
  • Relationship
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Life
  • Live
  • Journey

• Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Deep

• I am a daughter of that land,Where the poet’s lip and the painter’s handAre most divine, -where the earth and sky,Are picture both and poetry-I am of Florence.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Earth
  • Poetry
  • Picture

• I pray that all polar opposites learn to Agape Love, live and work together as brothers and sisters - or perish as fools. While I voted for Mr. Trump, my confidence remains in God, for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Prayers for President-elect Trump, Congressman Lewis, and everyone including leaders.

  

  Alveda King
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Soul
  • Hate

• My mother was an introvert and quite religious. And we were brought up in the church. And when she learned that I wanted to act, she simply said: 'You cannot live here and do that.'

  

  Cicely Tyson
  • Up
  • Live
  • She

• I feel accomplished knowing that I'm still the same at heart.

  

  Kiana Tom
  • Heart

• Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite decided law. ... Now the point at which embezzlement of the nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked judges who support illegality.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Money
  • American
  • Support

• I'm a pretty open book, so not being out publicly felt inauthentic. Hopefully we can get to a point where your personal life isn't anybody else's business, but until then, it's less about people having to know about your sexuality than standing up for what's right and fighting for equality.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

  

  Noel Redding The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • School
  • Age
  • VIolin

• Ah, Mein Kampf is a Magna Charta.

  

  David Lloyd George

• For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix