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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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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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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That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.
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The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.
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State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones.
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I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it.
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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.
