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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The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.
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Anybody I grew up with in this area - they're still a mate. Lots of people in the Prahran area gave me my first go. Sold me my trucks on... I don't know, 100 deposit and 100 a month. Without the support of those guys, you'd still sort of be driving a truck.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.
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If a guy is taking his girl for granted, he really deserves a slap, with a baseball bat.
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I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic.
