John Lithgow Quotes
One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact.

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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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I am an honest, straight guy.
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If I have been fortunate enough to have risen to a level in this business where people would actually listen to me, then I think I have a duty to convey all truths that I encounter.
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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan.
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I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked.
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One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact.