Joan Cusack Quotes

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

Joan Cusack

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• Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Never

• North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Country
  • North Korea

• I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Think
  • Knowledge
  • Software

• I know all the critics.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Know
  • Critics

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Fighting
  • Religious
  • Competition

• I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Drive
  • Effect
  • Fears

• I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Tom

• Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Unique
  • Hard
  • Come

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Believe
  • Feel
  • I Believe

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?

  

  Ian McShane
  • Why
  • She
  • Want

• I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Me
  • Said
  • Yes

• Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Great
  • She
  • Dad

• I gleaned different style ideas over the years. In Southern California, there is a big rockabilly sub-culture. So when I would go to car shows, I would see women dressed like this. I had a teacher in high school that always had her Bette Paige bangs.

  

  Andra Day
  • Different
  • Women
  • School

• A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Great
  • Change
  • Attitude

• Horses are such a powerful part of human development and have been since the early ages. We humans owe them so much.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Powerful

• Every morning I have something to do, I'm better off. It's bad to get up and not have something to do.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Morning

• You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Mom
  • Teacher
  • Math