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.'
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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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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
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Europe cannot solve this alone. We need stronger U.S. activity on the climate change issue if we are going to move forward. We are trying to do what we can to convince them to be more active on this.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
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Since the election, President Trump has shown a persistent penchant for conspiracy-minded suggestions about his political opponents and elements of his own government.
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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.'
