John Cusack Quotes
Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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I've learned through experience that you can't ever predict what's going to happen with any show. When I signed on to 'Ugly Betty,' I just prayed that I wouldn't get fired after the pilot, and four years later, I was still doing it.
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The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life.
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For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
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I used to be a pretty good hit-and-run man when I played in the minors. I handled the bat well and could hit the ball to the right side of the infield. Nevertheless, I know that you often give the opposition an out on the hit-and-run play.
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The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.
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Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.
