John Waters Quotes
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
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Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't - anymore. I don't consider a lot of the pop things I hear on the radio to be rock 'n' roll. It's just kind of fragmented.
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We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.
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If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.
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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
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Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.
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I like art. It's another way to rebel.
