John Cusack Quotes

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

John Cusack

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• He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Kind
  • Learn
  • Be kind

• I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Citizen

• I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose that. I think it's possible to maintain a big chunk of that identity so long as you're self-reflective and meaningful about it.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Identity

• I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • House
  • Trump
  • Reasonable

• You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Career
  • Know
  • Blessed

• If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Taste

• I would consider myself to be a moderate Republican, but more important than that, I believe our system of government is the best system there is... and while I have no illusions of changing the world, I've had good opportunities in life, and I believe there's an obligation to give something back by participating.

  

  Pat Meehan
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• Cussing ain't for everybody.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Everybody

• Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Deep
  • Thought
  • Enjoy

• When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Think
  • Door
  • Garden

• At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Family
  • School
  • Age

• Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it's fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Time
  • She

• I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • God
  • Family
  • Friends

• I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Believe
  • Control
  • Government

• My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Experience
  • Film
  • First

• I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Routine

• I'm really a normal person.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Person
  • Really
  • Normal

• Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Criticism

• The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Writing
  • Political
  • Strong

• It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Men
  • Character
  • Book

• The thing that I always respected about Bruce Arians was, when he was at Pittsburgh, he let Ben Roethlisberger decide what he liked. I used to do that. You can put something in and force-feed it to a quarterback. But if he doesn't like it and have his heart in it, it's not going to be as good as when he really likes something.

  

  John Madden
  • Good
  • Heart

• What I love about believing in a living God is that I believe God is constantly revealing God's self to us over time, and with each succeeding generation, we come a little closer to understanding the mind of God.

  

  Gene Robinson
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

  

  John Cusack
  • Criticism