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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You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.
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Although people who had achieved a great deal in science and technology talked of the inscrutability of creativity, I was not convinced and disbelieved them immediately and without argument. Why should everything but creativity be open to scrutiny? What kind of process can this be which unlike all others is not subject to control?…What can be more alluring than the discovery of the nature of talented thought and converting this thinking from occasional and fleeting flashes into a powerful and controllable fire of knowledge.
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There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.
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Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.
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I was never interested in being an overly public person.
