John Lithgow Quotes
It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business.
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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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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You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
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I mean, in the course of an evening, people will take a solo here and there, but generally it's all about the rhythm of that music. Dealing with the rhythm with everything. That's essentially at least my concept of what that group is.
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The-the-the criticism people have of your position, Reverend, is- you want God out of everything!
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Anne Elliot was the one Jane Austen character I didn't fall in love with. She seemed sad and defeated.
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Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.
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It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business.
