John Cusack Quotes
My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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I read on the Internet that I was dead.
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In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.
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I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
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Some people will stay at home and be content there. Others are born to run. It's that conflict that fascinates me.
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What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there.
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My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.
