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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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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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 had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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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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David Lynch plucked me from obscurity. He cast me as the lead in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet,' and people have seen me as this boy-next-door-cooking-up-something-weird-in-the-basement ever since. I was 23 when I first met him, in his bungalow on the Universal lot, and could never have predicted we would have such an enduring relationship.
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If you're a girl, you're always Daddy's little girl. You're vulnerable, no matter how worldly or sophisticated or strong you'd become along the way. My dad Lionel let me know how proud he was, even as he kept me from being too big for my britches.
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The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.
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How the original 'Cosmos' affected me personally was long-term. I wasn't born early enough to see the original series, but after getting a hold of it in my teen years, it was one of the driving forces behind my passion for science.
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A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.
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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.
