John Waters Quotes

'Hairspray' maybe did change people's minds, and that's how you get your political enemies to change their minds - by making them laugh and making them look at something in a way they haven't seen it. Not by preaching and cutting them off and being a separatist.

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• Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

  

  Garry Shandling
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• I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

  

  Larry Wall
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• All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

  

  Pat Boone
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• The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
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• I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Life
  • Real
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• The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Love
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• Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Down
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  • Oh

• The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Want
  • You
  • Thought

• I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • You
  • Steps
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• I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • World
  • Bad
  • Mother

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Reason
  • Feelings
  • Mankind

• I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
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• There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!

  

  Fat Joe
  • America
  • Help
  • Same

• All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge
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• I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!

  

  Zoe Kazan
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• Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Job
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  • Amazing

• Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

  

  Gary Owen
  • People
  • Black
  • White

• You need an actor who can maintain a character over a long period of time. If you have a weak actor, it won't be obvious in two hours, but you'll begin to see his weaknesses over four or five days.

  

  David L. Wolper
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  • Character

• I did a season at the Royal Shakespeare Company. People say, 'Why aren't you doing theater anymore?' And I say, 'Look, my kids have gotten used to wearing shoes.'

  

  Liam Cunningham
  • People
  • Why
  • Kids

• 'Young men,' said Cæsar, 'hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.'

  

  Plutarch
  • Men

• Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Change
  • Remain

• 'Hairspray' maybe did change people's minds, and that's how you get your political enemies to change their minds - by making them laugh and making them look at something in a way they haven't seen it. Not by preaching and cutting them off and being a separatist.

  

  John Waters
  • People
  • Political
  • Cutting