Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.
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I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.
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I went into a clothing store, and the lady asked me what size I was. I said, 'Actual'. I'm not to scale.
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Without even knowing why, we believe that to learn how to be human - which we have many years to do, for human beings have longer childhoods than any other species, a feature that to biologists and philosophers alike is one of our race's distinguishing characteristics - children must be surrounded by animal imagery.
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I knew Zico hyung ever since I was a young child. I believe that hyung's actions in general show me a lot. It gives me help, but also stimulates me.
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When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.
