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

• I have a lot of written material, and all of it's different. Some records that I have are country, some pop, some alternative rock. I just write what I feel, so I can't specifically say. I just want to be an artist of truth and an artist that stays true to herself.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Different
  • Country
  • Truth

• 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

• While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • School
  • American
  • College

• 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

• A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Movie
  • Will
  • Image

• 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

• I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

  

  Edith Cavell
  • Realize
  • Hatred
  • Patriotism

• 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

• I mean another thing I thought was, for example, important about Early One Morning, how long it is and you don't get it all in one.

  

  Anthony Caro
  • Important
  • Long
  • Morning

• I'm an egotistical actress, the shows I like are the ones where I have lots to do. The one where I got shot I - it was particularly memorable for me for a lot of reasons.

  

  Neal Baer
  • Reason
  • Memorable
  • Egotistical

• I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house. Had a champagne toast with the writers. Had a huge cast and crew party. Drank eggnog in the camera truck after we wrapped the final day. All that, and I don't really feel like I've said good-bye to 'Parenthood.'

  

  Jason Katims
  • Good
  • House
  • Party

• In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

  

  Brian Boyd
  • Life
  • Story
  • Own Right

• I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

  

  John Cusack