Joe Quotes

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

Don't be afraid of failure. Never fear it because there's always a lesson if you're open to it. There's always a lesson at the end of it. Always.

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.

Donald Evans is a favorite person of mine. His worth ethic, his attitude and his dedication really set him apart.

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

Pressure just makes you go a little more. I kind of like pressure.

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.

James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.

I have a fear of failure.

I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game, obviously it beats you up both mentally and physically.

There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

I read every fan forum and every blog, and every message board, and every chat room. I read it all. There's nothing online that I'm not aware of.

I was first in my family to go to college.

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification

Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's been taught properly and well.

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.

Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.

She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

No place better than Indiana on July 4th. Looking forward to a great weekend.

We need a hit, so here I go.

I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold.

Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

There's always some youngster coming up- they'll find somebody.

You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.

I definitely invented the everything bagel. There's no doubt. It's undeniable truth. It's one of those things that's 100% true, 50% of the time.

God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.

I'd rather report to four million people as the elected Sheriff than some governor or president, so I like reporting to the people.

Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.

If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.

To understand him you had to understand this: he wasn't human.

The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.

Politics has become entertainment.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.