John Lithgow Quotes
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.
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I'm pagan.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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I almost can't believe this even needs to be said, but it's not unwarranted to burden retirement advisers with a requirement that they act in their clients' best interest.
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
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New Year's Eve to Valentine's Day is our peak season, and in many ways, Valentine's Day is our Christmas. Everybody in the world makes the same three New Year's resolutions: health, career and money, and love.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.
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I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
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I don't keep secrets from my parents, really; it's pretty open.
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I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
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Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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It's a dream part, running around with guns, being an agent.
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They were just unbelievable, how structured they were and her understanding of music, which is not something you would expect from a pop artist. She had these ideas already in place for songs; all I really had to do was build music around them and develop them. It was quite easy.
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If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would've come off the whole enterprise, I'd say it was the sitcom. ... For the first time, society forced onto an enormous number of its citizens the requirement to manage something they had never had to manage before-free time.
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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
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Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.
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I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged.
