John Cusack Quotes
I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
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I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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Many of you have been reared on the cliche that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong.
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If most of those who took part in this one-dimensional debate were honest with themselves, they would admit that they do not in principle believe that the United States can do any good overseas for anyone but the American government, its armed forces, or privileged American elites.
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There's no doubt that what has emerged in the years after 9/11, unlike the situation in Britain, there were practices sanctioned in the U.S. that fall far below the standard of conduct that should have taken place. It is for the American system of government, in all of its branches, to address that. It is not for a British politician.
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I enjoy playing villains - I'm very proud that I belong to a very honorable tradition of British actors who come to Hollywood to play the bad guys. At some point in American film, I think there was the idea that the British accent had a tone to it that's a little bit naughty.
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.
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I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
