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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Call it not vain;-they do not err,Who say, that when the Poet dies,Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,And celebrates his obsequies.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Nature

• Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Lies

• That is precisely what we should have expected, since Genet wants to live simultaneously creation, destruction, the impossibility of destroying and the impossibility of creating, since he wants both to show his rejection of the divine creation and to manifest, in the absolute, human impotence as man’s reproval of God and as the testimony of his grandeur.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • God
  • Live
  • Rejection

• Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Death
  • Angry

• I want my kids to date; I want them to go out. I just remember great experiences as a kid, you know? Driving your car for the first time, picking up a young lady on a date for the first time. All those were little milestones to some extent.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Time
  • Important

• If you've been to China, you know there are over 100 cities in China, and the pollution levels are just horrific - 60,000 people a year die in Chinese factories and facilities because they don't have any safety regulations. It's a carnage; it's Dickensian.

  

  Peter Navarro
  • People
  • Die
  • Chinese

• Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • World
  • Love
  • Desires

• I feel like an old-fashioned mountain climber when I am making discoveries, seeing something for the first time, realizing that no human before me has ever seen what I am seeing. It takes your breath away - for just a moment, you feel a pause in time, as you know you are crossing a boundary into a new realm of knowledge.

  

  Heidi Hammel
  • Knowledge
  • Human
  • Mountain

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

  

  Joaquin Phoenix