"I can’t on my own change the regime……" — River Phoenix
"I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me."
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54 Quotes by River Phoenix
River Phoenix has 54 quotes on this site.
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I feel that there are great minds up there who would like to see what I can do with an…
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I’ve learned that if you can’t get it all together to accomplish this thing called peace, you do at least…
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I would rather quit while I was ahead. There’s no need in overstaying your welcome.
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After Stand By Me came out, people were telling me, 'You're so good,' 'You're going to be a star,' and…
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We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their…
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When I was younger, I was worried about how others viewed me and if I was good enough. I realize…
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Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags -- it's a universal disease.
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I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.
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We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal…
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What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.
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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…
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I've been around the movie business, so I can play it cool and all that, but when people are different…
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More Africa Quotes
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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