Harvey Fierstein Quotes

While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.

Harvey Fierstein

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• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
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• Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.

  

  Kaskade
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  • Music
  • Together

• Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Night
  • Party
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• When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Night
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• I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Think
  • Dance

• I've been doing acting since I was 6 years old, and I don't know how to do anything besides act and sing. Back in the day, you had to do it all - you had to sing, dance, and act. I'm from the old school where that is what I was trained to do, and that's what I am expected to do, so it's weird when people ask me to choose.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • School
  • Day

• I don't think my vocals demand effects. I like reverb to a certain extent, but I don't want to hide my voice. I like stripped-down vocals, but I also like crazy, powerful, doubled vocals like in dance or electronic music.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Music
  • Crazy
  • Powerful

• I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • True
  • Culture
  • Dance

• You have to stay in shape for dance. I don't want to be too skinny, but I don't want to be overweight. I want to be in the middle.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Want
  • You
  • Dance

• 'Dance Dance Revolution.' That's a lot of fun when you're having a dinner party and you just want to be a little silly.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Fun
  • Party
  • Dance

• Dance on, dance on, we see, we seeYouth goes, alack, and with it glee,A boy the old man ne’er can be;Maternal thirty scarce can findThe sweet sixteen long left behind.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Long
  • Dance
  • Boy

• Having trained as a dancer growing up, I love any dance related events.

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dance

• I had learnt Kathak for six years from the age of eight and did a foundation course from Kathak Kendra in Delhi. I was not fond of classical dance, but today, I'm glad my mom made me do it.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Age
  • Today
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• We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.

  

  Pete Best
  • World
  • Dance

• I would love to be able to tap dance.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Dance

• I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • School
  • Kids
  • Fun

• Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

  

  Armstrong Williams
  • Sports
  • Confidence
  • Dance

• Whether it be through television, or through music, or through dance, or through film, whatever it is, as long as it's the right project that makes sense, then I'm all for it.

  

  Derek Hough
  • Music
  • Long
  • Dance

• In graduate school, Aubrey Berg at the Cincinnati Conservatory gave me the chance to perform with the best in the country in Broadway caliber productions.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Country
  • School
  • Best

• Hype is wonderful when it happens, and you should capitalize on it. But you shouldn't bank on it being the thing that will take you to the next step. Because it's fleeting. The blah-blah-blah goes away, but you're still there.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • You
  • Will
  • Step

• Capitalistic society teaches kids to be No. 1, but true self-esteem doesn't come from money. It doesn't come from winning the Super Bowl.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Money
  • Kids
  • True

• If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Why
  • Mother
  • Food

• I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.

  

  Charlie Kaufman

• While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Dance
  • Prejudice
  • Streets