John Lithgow Quotes
I grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you're always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who'd been together since they were in kindergarten.
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Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
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Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
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I have taken the marshmallows off the sweet potatoes, however. They would make a big pan of sweet potatoes and cover it with marshmallows. My kids would love it if I would do that for them!
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I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.
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I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'
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I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.
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Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
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We want everybody to be bossed up.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave.
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I love stand-up comics, particularly those who have embraced podcasting.
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What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings. We live, we love, we woo, we wed, We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead. We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, And that's the burden of a year.
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It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.
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The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.
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If you were around when 'Them!' or 'Tarantula' came out, those effects were as good as you had ever seen.
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I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.
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I grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you're always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who'd been together since they were in kindergarten.
