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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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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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.
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There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
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My dad was the way he was, but he also gave me a motto: never say die. Just to keep pushing and pushing, fighting until the end. He put it in my head that you're always going to fight, and you're always going to beat them.
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The work I've done through my Common Culture Music series has enabled me not only to share my joy of music at scale but also promote the artists I love.
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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.
