Harvey Fierstein Quotes

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

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• I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.

  

  Kaskade
  • Life
  • Chicago
  • Decisions

• The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Best
  • Expectation

• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Society
  • Health

• The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Life
  • American

• When you have a little one, you realize that your only mission in life is to protect this helpless, very sensitive creature. That is your charge. That's primal. I relate to that deeply.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Realize
  • Mission

• I've never had a body issue; I've never had a self-confidence issue, and there's been very few times in my life where I've felt down about the way I look or the way I feel.

  

  Zendaya
  • Life
  • Confidence
  • Body

• All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Dark

• I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• … they believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth…

  

  Barney Frank
  • Life
  • Believe

• I have always felt that it is a task that you are given, and that you have it as long as you live. That is my fundamental view. It is an integral part of the job that you have it for life.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• In secret we metIn silence I grieve,That thy heart could forget,Thy spirit deceive.If I should meet theeAfter long years,How should I greet thee?With silence and tears.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Silence

• My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

  

  Bradley Whitford
  • Life
  • High
  • Hope

• My life was very Japanese.

  

  Bryan Clay
  • Life
  • Japanese

• I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the rock wallaby. If you're going to interpret your life pursuant to an utterly irrational dogma, why can't it have a cute mascot? Rock wallabies really are fabulous animals, and in any remotely just world, they would have their own star sign.

  

  Elliot Perlman
  • Life
  • World
  • Why

• I love to play, and I love what it brings to me. It's such a healthy life, and to me, it means everything.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Life

• My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Life
  • Humility

• If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Women
  • Friends
  • Environment

• We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

  

  William T. Wiley
  • Thing
  • Involved

• I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • May
  • Book

• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Life
  • Silence
  • Victim