John Waters Quotes
When I was young, there were bars called the 'Hungry Hole,' and in those same neighbourhoods are now gay people pushing baby carriages.

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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.
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I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.
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I'm not really in a rush to grow up.
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Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.
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When I was young, there were bars called the 'Hungry Hole,' and in those same neighbourhoods are now gay people pushing baby carriages.