John Cusack Quotes
Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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The coronation is a symbol of power, but it's not a symbol for us the people. It's a symbol for that person, who is a human, to become a higher being and become one with God. The church, the scepter, and the crown have been around forever. And the line of kings of England goes back thousands of years.
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I definitely gain weight, and I'm not naturally thin.
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Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
