John Cusack Quotes
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.
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If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.
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My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
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We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.
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My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.
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What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.
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To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.
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It's little I know what's in my heart,What's in my mind it's little I know,But there's that in me must up and start,And it's little I care where my feet go.
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I am sensitive to the fact that other people may have different beliefs.
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It mocks me as it flies, I know: All too soon the gleam will go; Yet I love it and shall love My dream that brooks no narrower bars Than bind the darkening heavens above, My Jack o'Lanthorn of the stars: Then, I'll follow it no more, I'll light the lamp: I'll close the door.
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Let the world slide, let the world go;A fig for care, and a fig for woe!If I can't pay, why I can owe,And death makes equal the high and low.
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I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.
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I love voyaging - the longest has been 3,000 miles to Hawaii. I've also spent weeks all over the Caribbean.
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I wrote to one of my doctors: I could never have guessed what would get me through this past year - a woodland snail and its offspring; I honestly don't think I would have made it otherwise. Watching another creature go about its life...somehow gave me, the watcher, purpose too. If life mattered to the snail and the snail mattered to me, it meant something in my life mattered, so I kept on...
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I was never interested in being an overly public person.
