John Lithgow Quotes
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
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We live in a society where nothing is sacred.
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If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
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Most people don’t listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By...
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Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
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Activism isn't beautiful and easy, or a bunch of people getting together and picketing; it's a lot more complicated and difficult than that.
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So much of venture capital is pattern recognition.
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I think it's important to have as many experiences as possible in life because one day you won't be able to do it anymore.
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When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find.
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I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.
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I'm a sports guy. Football, God, I flip out.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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This record is probably as easy as anything I've ever done.
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I was a great dreamer of day dreams.
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They gave me powers of thought and memory far beyond anything natural evolution would have given me, but that doesn't give them the right to decide the meaning of my life as if I were some dream. I decide the meaning. If my life is a dream then it's my dream, I'm the dreamer.
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I think I was a pretty anxious dreamer, maybe a fundamentally lonely kid.
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Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.
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Everybody's a dreamer.
