Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
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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!
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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.
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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?'
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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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.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.
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AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.
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I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.
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It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.
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Call it not vain;-they do not err,Who say, that when the Poet dies,Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,And celebrates his obsequies.
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Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
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Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.
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In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.
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For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.
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You can take that 'I'm an artiste' stuff to the wrong extreme, too.
