John Waters Quotes

I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

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• I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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  • Business
  • Nothing

• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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  • Fight

• As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.

  

  Iggy Azalea
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• It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.

  

  Zebulon Pike
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• Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.

  

  Lamar Hunt
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• I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

  

  A. S. Byatt
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• Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.

  

  Gary Zukav
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• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
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• The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

  

  Harold Ramis
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  • Nature

• There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.

  

  Daniel Ek
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• I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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  • Discovery

• The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

  

  Barbara Jordan
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  • Trying
  • America

• There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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  • Energy
  • Kind

• People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

  

  Olivier Megaton
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  • Reality
  • Serious

• Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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  • Evil

• I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what you want with it and serve it to people just the way you like.

  

  Karan Johar
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• I think people should look cute all the time.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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  • Time
  • Cute

• Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.

  

  Peter Mandelson
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• I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!'

  

  Jo Ann Davis
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• I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

  

  John Waters
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