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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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.
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I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'
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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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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.
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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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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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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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I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing.
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Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.
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It could be the case that all the studies supporting a warming planet are wrong; science always leaves that door open, but anthropogenic climate change remains the best explanation for a mountain of data that scientists have been poring over for a century.
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People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.
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If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.
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I guess maybe I'm idealistic.
