""Family" this and "family" that. If I had……" — John Waters
""Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using it as a code for censorship the same way "states' rights" was used to disguise racism in the mid-sixties."
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103 Quotes by John Waters
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I'm for gay marriage. I don't want to do it, but I certainly think people should be allowed to, and…
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There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When…
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If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to…
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Irony ruined everything Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be `so bad they were good`. They were…
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As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.
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Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.
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Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?
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I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge…
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Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax.
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I used to joke that I was trying to sell out, and nobody would buy me.
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I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.
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And I seek people who break rules with happiness — and not bringing pain to themselves.
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More Busybodies Quotes
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But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora…
— Alan Watts
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It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
— C.S. Lewis
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People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people…
— Donald J. Boudreaux
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Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny…
— Lyndon LaRouche
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I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.
— George Takei
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The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves.…
— Thomas Sowell
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We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to…
— Sonny Perdue
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Busy people are never busybodies.
— Ethel Mumford
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Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.
— Martin O'Malley
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Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word…
— Thomas Sowell
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Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for…
— Pablo Picasso
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