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River Phoenix

"We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing."

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"We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing."

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"A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay."

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"Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all."

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"I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred."

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"One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties."

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"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch."

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"In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it."

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"An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country."

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"Above all, we shall wage no more unilateral, ill-planned, ill-considered, and ill-prepared invasions of foreign countries that pose no actual threat to our security."

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"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."

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"There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible."

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"It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house."
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"I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight."
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"When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'."
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"We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success."
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"I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall."
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"When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard."
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"Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting."
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"I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done."
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"Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don't want to do it because it's the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right."
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"Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling."
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