Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
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People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.
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I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.
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You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
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Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.
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The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in '90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it.
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At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
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I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out.
