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John Lithgow Quotes

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: October 19, 1945

Topics

Great Perspective Awards Everything

The curious thing is Americans don't mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public insurance. In fact, that's the system we call Social Security and Medicare, and both are so popular politicians dare not touch them.

Curious Mind Insurance Security Dare

Some receivers are like sports cars: they have a lot of speed and flair. Me, I'm like an old pickup truck. I just bounce around and try to get the job done.

Sports Job Me Truck Speed Done

In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that goes into people's garbage cans - actually gets recycled. If you go to a place like South Korea, the exact reverse is the case. It's about 3 percent that doesn't get recycled.

Tristram Stuart

Food People You Place Go Garbage

I wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of person to do that.

Job Think You Person Want Different

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.

World Literature Know Say Why Hard

Charles Koch and David Koch, co-owners of Koch Industries, are U.S. citizens, taxpayers, entrepreneurs and employers.

Citizens Industries David Employers

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

Work Democracy Political Noise Well

I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.

Chrystia Freeland

Democracy Writing Teeth Cut About

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Mindset Why Try Why Not Entertaining

Factors such as timing, luck, and destiny have a bearing on success. But success and failure are good teachers. Failure means something better is waiting for you. But I will allow myself to get upset at failure only if I know I have not given it my all.

Success Failure Good Myself Waiting

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

William Shatner

Dog Alone Loneliness Universe You

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

People Influence Unhappy Unemployment

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