John Cusack Quotes
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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We were descended from royalty.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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'Is it a wicked thing, then?''I should call it a misunderstanding, rather. A misunderstanding of life. Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.'
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To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.
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I don't have time for these clowns. I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity. They lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and just look at their loser lives and then look at me and they say 'I can't process it'. Well no, and you never will. Stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show.
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Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
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Whether it is sufficiently meeting systemic needs is largely left up to whether we trust the government.
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I have a bit of a rebellious nature.
