John Waters Quotes
I'm sick of '60s nostalgia. I've been to clubs in New York where it's just like the Fillmore East. And I thought I hated that then.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
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Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about twelve years old. That wasn't the first science fiction I had ever read, but it's something that stands out in my memory as having had a big impact on me.
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I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
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In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.
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I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.
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Maybe the universe doesn’t approve of places like New York.
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For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
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Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real. They want men to adore them like Lloyd Dobler would, and they want women to think like Aimee Mann, and they expect all their arguments to sound like Sam Malone and Diane Chambers. They think everything will work out perfectly in the end (just like it did for Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones and Nick Hornby's Rob Fleming), and they don't stop believing because Journey's Steve Perry insists we should never do that.
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I want to change the perception about Latinos worldwide. I think people don't know yet how cool we are.
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Anyone who thinks I'm a plastic-surgery freak is insane.
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I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick.
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I'm sick of '60s nostalgia. I've been to clubs in New York where it's just like the Fillmore East. And I thought I hated that then.
