John Lithgow Quotes

It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business.

John Lithgow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BusinessCreativePeopleWaitYou

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

John Boyd Orr

KnowledgeSocietyNewCivilization

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.

Robert Reich

CuriousMindInsuranceSecurityDare

The roots that weave up my right arm and onto my neck are my way of connecting with the earth: the earth's roots carry water like a human's veins carry blood.

Jeff Hardy

WaterRootsEarthBloodWayRight

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

John Ruskin

EducationBestHumanOutSoulsThem

Prayer reminds me it's not just about me. It's about all the people with whom I share this planet, and all of whom God has created, and all of whom he cares just as much about as he cares about me.

Mike Huckabee

GodPrayerPeopleMePlanetShare

When you have your own kid, it suddenly makes you more aware of how your parents treated you and educated you. Your relationships with your partner, your uncles, your mother all change; you're more conscious of where you came from, of where your roots are. I find that very interesting.

Juergen Teller

ChangeMotherParentsRootsPartner

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

Dinaw Mengestu

DecisionPoliticsAfricaWriteFirst

I would love a combination of action/adventure and... love. And stories told with heart. I would like people to be invigorated as well as moved. People to see the movie and see that. I love to play, y'know, well-rounded characters.

Dennis Haysbert

LoveHeartPeoplePlaySeeWell

The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.

David Selby

PeacePeopleWishI WishWonderful

It... does... not... have... to... be... pointed out all the time. Like, 'Isn't it great that you're black, and you're a woman?' Isn't it great that the show's good? I would just love for it not to be a thing - for it just to be, like, super norm.

Courtney A. Kemp

LoveGoodGreatTimeWomanBlack

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

Allen Klein

AdversityLaughYouDefeatSetbacks

Your greatest achievement is to love me.

Prince Charles

LoveAchievementMeLove MeGreatest

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