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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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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'Fast And Furious 7' was quite random. I remember that it was the first holiday that I took in the entire year. I was in Mussoorie for two days with my friends when I got a call from my international PRs asking me to audition for 'Fast And Furious 7.'
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Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.
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I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.
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A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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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.
