#ear

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#congress #gravitation #hear #kept #law

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#big business #big government #business #fear #government

I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that. ↗

— Taylor Phinney

#europe #i #locally #olympics #raced

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#commit #fear #gonna #i #i always

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#four #lifetime #like #me #paint

I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#all things #boring #dull #everything #feel

I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#amazing #believe #enemy #first #heard

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#always #anything #certainly #door #guitar

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#earnest #everyone #many #movies #purpose

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#affected #any #applause #beautiful #beautiful person