John Cusack Quotes
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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I make sure I eat well without depriving myself of the things that I love: a cheeseburger and fries, creamy white-truffle pasta, bowls of ice cream. Everything in moderation, but I indulge at least three times a week.
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And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
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By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
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I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.
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Nothing had been attempted like that, to lift Dad's voice, literally, off of that track and put it on a brand-new one, and then line it up, match it up, get the phrasing right. I remember listening - everyone listening at the end, and we were just enthralled. It was really wonderful.
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I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.
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A dangerous person to disagree with.
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Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.
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She looked at me. Looked away. 'You think too much of me.'I smiled. 'Perhaps you think too little of yourself.'
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We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.
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My mom is an elementary-school music teacher. For her, music is an educational tool.
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As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down.
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If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.
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So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.
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I guess maybe I'm idealistic.
