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 I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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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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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.
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Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.
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MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.
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Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.
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I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out.
