John Waters Quotes
In the 1960s, if you could save $500, you had enough to move to another city and start a new life.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.
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It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.
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The CIA in real life, we know, is looking for new kinds of cover. It's looking for new platforms, as they like to say, and it's trying to use the revolution in communications technology, the ability to use all sorts of corporate entities in ways that are hard to detect to get our spies in the places where they need to be.
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Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.
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I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.
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In the 1960s, if you could save $500, you had enough to move to another city and start a new life.
