John Waters Quotes

I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time. I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend... I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York, and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

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• With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Try
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• I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.

  

  Oren Peli
  • History
  • Know
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• I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
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• Be who you are and be that well.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
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• In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• My daughter passed away in 2003.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Remember

• Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • Fashion

• I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

  

  Pat Conroy
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  • Hand
  • Like

• I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

  

  Zoey Deutch
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  • Write
  • Own

• Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Easy

• Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.

  

  Brown Campbell
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  • Women
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• If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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  • Talk
  • Oppression

• People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
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  • Balance

• Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Always
  • Adolescent
  • Anorexia

• I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Money
  • Never
  • Enough

• That's why the have the programmes presented by 45 guys; 'Hi I'm Ted, I'm Bob, I'm Ralph, I'm Dick, I'm Dale, I'm Nick, I'm Will', and they keep changing all the angles of the camera. 'I'm over here, I'm at this desk, I'm standing here' and Wendy comes up from under the desk with the financial weather.

  

  Dylan Moran
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  • Why
  • Financial

• Most people don't have the power of persuasion.

  

  James Altucher
  • People
  • Power

• Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then when I went on 'Pop Idol,' and the first time I saw it on television, it was really, really bad, but also it made me stand out; it made people remember me. So for the first time in my life, it worked to my advantage.

  

  Gareth Gates
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• I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time. I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend... I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York, and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

  

  John Waters
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