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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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
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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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I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.
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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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I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.
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Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.
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Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.
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You simply cannot drive forward if you’re focused on what’s happening in the rear view mirror.
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I guess maybe I'm idealistic.
