John Lithgow Quotes
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Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
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The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.
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The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.
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It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.
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When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.
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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
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There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.
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I have a lot of faith in people.
