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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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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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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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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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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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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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'm a pretty terrible rapper. I always have been.
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I was counsel on the full veterans committee, the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full-committee counsel in Congress. It stunned me that there was a 600,000-case backlog of claims. During my time in the Senate, it became 900,000.
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My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.
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Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful.
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What a squalid and irresponsible little profession it is. Nothing prepares you for how bad Fleet Street really is until it craps on you from a great height.
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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.
