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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I like living on the edge.
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I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.
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I'd sometimes go to Paris by myself - it was an easy two-hour train ride - to get a break from the everyday grind, to walk around a big city, ride a subway, feel the energy of a world capital.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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I make music to make you sick of fake music - hate music like devil worshippin' Satan music. So say your prayers - your Hail Mary's and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.
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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.
