Harvey Fierstein Quotes

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

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• I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
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• When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
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• If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

  

  Hal Sparks
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• Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

  

  Jack Horner
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• Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.

  

  Samantha Bond
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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
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• I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Character
  • Judge

• I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
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• I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
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• It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
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• I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Myself

• I don't know if it is of any joy to humiliate people. No matter what, whether you're high in life or low in life, humiliation and such kinds of things should just be ignored. I don't derive any pleasure from running people down.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
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• When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
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  • Myself
  • Questions

• I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.

  

  AJ McLean
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• Being humbled has been a part of my life for a long time.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I prefer a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

  

  Avicenna
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• The philosopher is ultimately compelled to transcend not merely the dimensions of common opinion, of political opinion, but the dimension of political life as such; for he is left to realize that the ultimate aim of political life cannot be reached by political life, but only by a life devoted to contemplation, to philosophy.

  

  Leo Strauss
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• I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.

  

  Alice Eve
  • Life
  • American
  • California

• I'm useless with a sword in real life.

  

  John Bradley-West
  • Life
  • Real

• After all, things are what they are. A message is a message, plates are plates, men are men, and life is life.

  

  Anna Karina
  • Life
  • Men
  • Message

• I like the Kardashians, but I do keep them on the top of my prayer list.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Like
  • Prayer
  • Top

• My voice is very country, and my songwriting is very country.

  

  Aubrie Sellers
  • Country

• You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
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