John Waters Quotes

Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?

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• When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Night
  • Homeless
  • Minimum Wage

• From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Motivational
  • Fortune
  • Tribe

• It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Tough

• A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Marriage

• I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Science
  • Scientist
  • Continue

• A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Ethical
  • Blindness

• By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

  

  O. Henry
  • Nature
  • Habit
  • Choice

• At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Business
  • Mother
  • Father

• Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Mercy

• Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.

  

  Clare Short

• Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • May
  • Fear
  • Courage

• Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Friends
  • Mom

• I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

  

  Bess Myerson
  • Phoenix

• In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • High
  • Pretty

• It's important to show that there's different ways of doing things. Some people like to be glamorous, and that's perfectly fine, and that's amazing. If I were that style, then I would do that. I'd wear heels every day, and I'd strut around in a dress, but that's not me.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• When you think about your relationship with Christ, it really just affects every aspect of your life. I think a lot of people try to segment off, like, 'This is church, so this is God, this is my daily life, this is my job,' but I think true faith is when it manifests itself in every single aspect of your life.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

  

  Christopher Reeve

• The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • German
  • Productivity

• Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed into this band called the Beatles and did all that work. I have to think that was something metaphysical. Something alchemic. Something that must be thought of as magic.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Reason
  • Years
  • Boots

• The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life
  • Lies

• I was born in Honduras, that's where I was born. I live in California, where no matter what you say, you're Mexican. You understand that? It doesn't matter what you say. See - you don't understand that, white people, because wherever you go, you're white. You're here, you're white. You go to L. A., you're white. You go to Denver, you're white. You go to Miami, you're still white. In L. A. I'm a Mexican, In Florida, I'm a Cuban. In New York, I'm a Puerto Rican. And when I come to Canada and I find out I'm an Eskimo.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • People
  • Born

• Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?

  

  John Waters
  • Drug