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 love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.
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'A Christmas Carol' and 'It's a Wonderful Life,' are movies we love with magic in them.
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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
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While you can find zucchini in markets in most places year-round, allowing you to make everything from breakfast dishes like zucchini and onion frittatas to snacks like zucchini-stuffed crab cakes, the onset of fall marks the beginning of hard squash season.
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How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings?
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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.
