John Waters Quotes

I'd be a bad father. I'm too self-involved.

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• Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

  

  Haniel Long
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • God
  • Believe
  • Love

• I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Control
  • Fall
  • Cards

• William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Career
  • Person
  • Most

• I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Goal

• I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Character
  • Thought
  • Short

• I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Think
  • Fight

• I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Done
  • Never
  • Cutting

• Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Home
  • Most

• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Become
  • Atheist

• Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Power
  • Culture
  • Goal

• Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Home
  • Sleep
  • Baby

• Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Said
  • Now

• The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Lying

• I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Human

• The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
  • Things
  • Possible

• If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?

  

  Lisa See
  • Live
  • Children
  • Family

• My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Family
  • Remember

• I've always been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage, and I don't bake cookies and I don't stay home.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Good
  • Home
  • Business

• Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.

  

  A. Theodore Tuttle
  • Mother
  • Cost
  • Motherhood

• I'd be a bad father. I'm too self-involved.

  

  John Waters
  • Bad
  • Father