John Cusack Quotes
A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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When I was singing, everybody liked me.
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We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.
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It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
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Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.
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Women are such strong, powerful leaders, and a lot of the time, we play it silent.
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One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.
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A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.
