John Lithgow Quotes
An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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I like to do Pilates.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
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This team has a chemistry more than the other (two) teams I've been on. We all mesh so well with our personalities and there is something special about this team. You can just tell, and we all feel it.
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I have based my life on being strong enough to do anything.
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
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If a song can't be written in 20 minutes, it ain't worth writing.
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I think I'm the best, of course. How could I not?
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An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.
