This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.


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JOHN WATERS
To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.
ALICE WATERS
I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that's how I grew up. But th...
JOHN WATERS
I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really sus...
ALICE WATERS
If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really pr...
ALICE WATERS
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American histo...
FRANK WATERS
These guys have a lot of respect for Lamar. Because of (Lamar), around the league you never hear any...
BRIAN WATERS
Sometimes it's just a lot easier for them to go with the flow of the game and not make the big rever...
BRIAN WATERS
If we didn't go for it, believe me there would have been a lot of discussions in this locker room.
BRIAN WATERS
Teams like New England and Philadelphia win the old-fashioned way. They run the ball, they play good...
BRIAN WATERS
They just needed an upgrade. I think they saw an opportunity to upgrade with Cleveland. Denver saw a...
BRIAN WATERS
It comes down to basic communication and setting expectations.
BRIAN WATERS
It shook me. You know that in this job we have, there are some health issues.
BRIAN WATERS
It was like they got all the momentum right there. But we just made too many mistakes, too many turn...
BRIAN WATERS
It's always nice to see Trent out there. He's our leader. He's the guy who makes this thing work.
BRIAN WATERS
It took us awhile, but we finally just told them to tell us what to do, and we would do it. There wa...
BRIAN WATERS
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over t...
ROGER WATERS
'Blood Feast' is my favorite of Lewis' films. When we shot 'Serial Mom,' and I s...
JOHN WATERS
Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scena...
MARK WATERS
If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!
JOHN WATERS
Life is nothing if you're not obsessed.
JOHN WATERS
When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and h...
ETHEL WATERS
The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or mo...
ETHEL WATERS
I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about the...
MARK WATERS
After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistlin...
ETHEL WATERS
I'd be arrested if I still smoked because I'm the one who would be changing the battery in t...
JOHN WATERS
Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun ...
ETHEL WATERS
We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dietin...
ALICE WATERS
That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through...
MUDDY WATERS
If you're a juvenile delinquent today, you're a hacker. You live in your parent's house;...
JOHN WATERS
The early '20s were like the waist of an hourglass. Lots of things were hurtling toward it and s...
SARAH WATERS
I have been talking nonstop about the symbolism of an edible landscape at the White House. I think i...
ALICE WATERS
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever ...
ETHEL WATERS
Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is pl...
MARK WATERS
The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you're going to the grocery store, yo...
ALICE WATERS
No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.
ETHEL WATERS
I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.
JOHN WATERS