John Cusack Quotes

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

John Cusack

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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.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Power
  • Political
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Complain

• There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • You
  • Fight
  • Corruption

• 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.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Eat
  • Sure
  • Least

• And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • World
  • Example
  • Terror

• 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.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Weird

• I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Teach
  • Some

• I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Story
  • Fiction
  • Line

• Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Color
  • inspirational

• We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Time
  • Heroes
  • Abstract

• Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • You
  • Light
  • Fail

• By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Important
  • Money
  • Fortune

• I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Dad

• 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.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Men
  • Long
  • Business

• A dangerous person to disagree with.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• 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.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• She looked at me. Looked away. 'You think too much of me.'I smiled. 'Perhaps you think too little of yourself.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • She

• For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

  

  Mary Kay Andrews
  • Morning
  • Magic
  • Christmas

• The goal in some types of yoga is to try and reconcile all the characters within a person, and, in fact, the word 'yoga' comes from the word 'union.'

  

  Asghar Farhadi
  • Yoga

• The Internet is just a chance to do something. Nowhere else can you go, 'I have an idea, I can write this idea, and I can execute this idea.'

  

  Paul Scheer
  • Idea
  • Write
  • Execute

• As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.

  

  Jean Hanff Korelitz
  • Interesting
  • Adversity

• I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

  

  John Cusack