John Waters Quotes
Liberal censors are the worst. I don't remember any trouble with 'Serial Mom' or 'Cecil B. Demented' or any of them. Except 'Cry Baby.'
Quotes to Explore
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I'm a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it.
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Every now and then if you try, you can discover something new.
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Acapulco, Mexico: '...queer, dirty little dago town....The people are too revolting for words, super dagoes & some of them are quite black as a result of Spaniards inter-breeding with the Indians; & of course they only speak Spanish' (9 September 1920)
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.
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I remember watching the first Million Man March as a kid, and I always knew that if I got a chance to go to one, I would go.
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Liberal censors are the worst. I don't remember any trouble with 'Serial Mom' or 'Cecil B. Demented' or any of them. Except 'Cry Baby.'
