John Cusack Quotes

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

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• I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Me
  • Attention
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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Work
  • History
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• In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Beginning
  • Dance
  • Much

• Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Chess

• Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?

  

  Halima Aden
  • Trying
  • School
  • Kids

• I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Men
  • Different
  • Want

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Everything
  • Build
  • Cinema

• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Ugliest

• I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Flying
  • Own
  • Leave

• As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Change

• There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Forget

• Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Beautiful
  • Question
  • Always

• Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Jesus
  • Meaning
  • Example

• Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Training
  • Win
  • Again

• Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • History
  • Today
  • Beginning

• You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Believe
  • Talent

• Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Career
  • Choices

• You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Sports
  • Win
  • Lose

• Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

  

  Fred F. Fielding
  • Justice
  • Practice

• I think I could totally be a gangster, but I could never be the kind of gangster that carries things out myself. I would have to be the kingpin that has my minions go and do the dirty bidding. I think I'd be pretty good at giving orders.

  

  Elena Satine
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Giving

• Now as they were going along and talking, they espied a Boy feeding his Father’s Sheep. The Boy was in very mean Cloaths, but of a very fresh and well-favoured Countenance, and as he sate by himself he sung. Hark, said Mr Greatheart, to what the Shepherd’s boy saith. So they hearkened, and he said-

  

  John Bunyan
  • Father
  • Boy

• I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

  

  John Cusack
  • Good
  • Moral
  • Boy