John Lithgow Quotes
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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My health is fine.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
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No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers.
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Having spent time on the Broadway stage definitely helps one's confidence in terms of feeling just validated in that world. Most people only know my voice as a country artist.
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If you don't have work for a border collie or time to train it properly, your bright young border collie will invent his own work, and chances are you won't like it.
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I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here.
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Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
