John Lahr Quotes
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.
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One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me. The friends I hang out with, we create our own work rather than complain about acting.
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I know there's life after the Olympics.
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His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.
