John Waters Quotes

On airplanes, strangers confide in me the most deepest, darkest secrets. And I think they think I'll understand. And I generally do understand.

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• I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Work
  • Job
  • Hard Work

• I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Long
  • Done

• I've always been clear - I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It's a big team but an inferior league. I don't want to return to France, because I've won everything over there - the league title, cup, best player, best young player.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Team
  • Best

• It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • High
  • Way
  • Foolish

• We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Strong
  • Fighting
  • Opinion

• There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Life
  • Long
  • Care

• I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • High
  • Opinion
  • Need

• We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Live
  • Hate
  • Violence

• I am frequently attacked.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Attacked

• Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Smart

• In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Past
  • City
  • Now

• Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Art
  • Artists

• This image of four spectra is taken from one of Huggins's publications. ...You can see that the Comet Winnecke resembles olive oil more than it does Comet Brorsen.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Taken

• This is the way how we have to understand the accounts of trials; we must not think that God desires to examine us and to try us in order to know what He did not know before. Far is this from Him; He is far above that which ignorant and foolish people imagine concerning Him, in the evil of their thoughts. Note this.

  

  Maimonides
  • People
  • God
  • Evil

• So what does it matter where it was when it was hit? We could have sunk it if it'd been tied up on the quayside in a neutral port and everyone would still have been delighted.

  

  Alan Clark Dire Straits
  • Up

• I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Hate

• I don't look like a chorus girl.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Girl

• It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.

  

  Martin Lel
  • Good
  • Champion

• I was 17 when I auditioned for 'Miss Saigon.' I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a year into 'Miss Saigon,' that I was going to be a performer, that I was going to be singing and acting.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Singing

• When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

  

  Denis Johnson
  • Writing
  • American

• I was like, "If I don't change my mind, if I don't change my heart, if I don't develop some skill, I'm always going to be sleeping in my car."

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Sleep

• I grew up in Balham in south London, and my best friend's brother was Geoffrey Robinson, who of course later became paymaster general, but at that time, he was working in politics.

  

  Art Malik
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friend

• On airplanes, strangers confide in me the most deepest, darkest secrets. And I think they think I'll understand. And I generally do understand.

  

  John Waters