Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

You can take that 'I'm an artiste' stuff to the wrong extreme, too.

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• The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Eye
  • Leader
  • Horizon

• Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'

  

  M. Ward
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Me

• But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Never
  • Take
  • Punishment

• There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • People
  • Money
  • Door

• When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Done
  • Character
  • Said

• The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.

  

  Gary Kovacs
  • Talk
  • Street
  • Hometown

• AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Country
  • Challenge
  • Disaster

• The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • America
  • Black
  • Road

• In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Always
  • Language
  • Learn

• Of course, no one has enough time to see every shop that Mumbai has: That would take more lifetimes than even the gods could offer.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Time
  • Enough
  • See

• Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Important
  • Decisions

• The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • God
  • Man
  • Stop

• I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Good
  • Think
  • Day

• I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Career
  • Tennis
  • Outside

• I want to be the best.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Want
  • Best

• It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.

  

  Victor Hugo

• It's not about the money. It never was. The fundamental principle is, the guy loves this whole thing.

  

  Paul Wachter
  • Money
  • Guy
  • Loves

• A comic book is the opposite of a cartoon. In a cartoon, you want to simplify the idea, so when they look at it at a glance, they get it. Boom. Simple. Direct to the point. But when you're drawing Groo, now it's a narrative, a story. You want the viewer to get involved in the story. You want him to feel like he's in the town to follow your main character. So I love to add lots and lots of things in it. Things that people will enjoy going back to and say, "Oh yeah, that's how a market must have looked in this fantasy world, with people selling meat here and dishes here."

  

  Sergio Aragones
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Life
  • Lose
  • Willing

• Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

  

  Belle Boyd
  • Live
  • Sad

• You can take that 'I'm an artiste' stuff to the wrong extreme, too.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix