John Lithgow Quotes
I'm probably a better granddad than dad because your role as a grandfather is to be fun, and I'm fun.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
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The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.
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Nobody in show business can possibly get away with making fun of their boss.
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I actually have all these tapes, from when I was five, from when I was 10, and from when I was 15, that don't really have to do anything with each other, but they're sort of archeological in my musical history.
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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I'm probably a better granddad than dad because your role as a grandfather is to be fun, and I'm fun.
