John Waters Quotes
My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble.
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I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
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I was very rebellious.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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HB 2 leaves 90% of the children behind. The disconnect between this bill and the basic needs of Texas schoolchildren is appalling.
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To win an Olympic title when there are 205 nations taking part, you have to be super-human. You have to be superman.
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Hinde Esther Singer was born in Poland on March 31, 1881, the daughter of Bathsheva and Pinchos Mendel Singer. Bathsheva was an intellectual, but both Bathsheva's father and her husband disapproved of erudite women.
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You've got a league with a couple thousand players or so depending on the time of year. Then you have 10 or more very high profile stories that are terrible stories and things that have happened.
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The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?
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My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble.
