John Lithgow Quotes
When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
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My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.
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Ringing the cash register is not the name of the game. It's only the scorekeeper, and it's not what motivates me. I'm motivated in my business by the compliments I receive about our people, our service, and the quality of our food.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.
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I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'
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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
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When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder.
