John Cusack Quotes
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
Quotes to Explore
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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The world is too violent right now.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
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You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
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I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.
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I still have a YA-genre-series type of a book in me that I really want to tell.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
