John Waters Quotes

I wanted to own a junk yard as a child, you know. I used to smash cars and think, 'Oh, my God, there's been an accident.' My mother would take me to junk yards, and I look back on that and I think, 'Wow, that was really loving.'

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• There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • School
  • Game
  • Goal

• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Old
  • Lucky

• I always played to win.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Always
  • Win
  • Played

• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.

  

  Dan Rather
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • Know
  • Professional

• I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Good
  • Always
  • Struggle

• I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Guy

• Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Law

• I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • American
  • Perfect
  • Economy

• I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Play

• This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Alien

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• Good men must not obey the laws too well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Good Men

• The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Administration
  • Numerous

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• I don't know Sally Jenkins. I've met her once. I wouldn't know her in an elevator.

  

  Daniel Snyder

• You have never been blessed out or bawled out or chewed out unless you got it from The Boo in his prime. Did I say he was five times louder than God? I'm sorry if that sounds sacrilegious and it certainly is not true. The Boo was at least ten times louder than God and I was scared of him my entire cadet career.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • God
  • True
  • Career

• When streams of unkindness, as bitter as gall, Bubble up from the heart to the tongue, And Meekness is writhing in torment and thrall, By the hands of Ingratitude wrung, -In the heat of injustice, unwept and unfair, While the anguish is festering yet, None, none but an angel or God can declare 'I now can forgive and forget.'

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Up
  • God
  • Heart

• There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supersedes all-[Jewish] settlement [of the land].

  

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky
  • God
  • Law
  • Single

• I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a better actor. Anytime I'm afraid of something that makes me rise to the occasion, it scares me, but it's what makes great actors - being in the moment.

  

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  • Great

• I wanted to own a junk yard as a child, you know. I used to smash cars and think, 'Oh, my God, there's been an accident.' My mother would take me to junk yards, and I look back on that and I think, 'Wow, that was really loving.'

  

  John Waters
  • God
  • Mother