John Lithgow Quotes
I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.
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I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!
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I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.
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The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.
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The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
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I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
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I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.
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I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.
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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
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Education is very important to me, as is helping children.
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It seems to be unfortunately true that the epidemic of world lawlessness is spreading. When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.
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I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic.
