Harvey Fierstein Quotes
In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself...
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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
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If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
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Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
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I believe with a lot of support shows, people are very much there to see the headliner. You don't necessarily have their full attention, and some of what we do requires a lot of silence.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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She certainly gave me what I've been losing. Youth's intensity, its craving, the soul-priapism, huge lust and fierce to her, clamour for her to realize with me that mightiest marriage-dream, that Sacrament of Satan that may be consummated only beneath Night's dome, in utmost silence, because its Elements are not symbols of things, but They themselves.
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I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.
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I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.
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We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
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To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
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Great souls suffer in silence.
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For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.
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Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
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My hobby is silence.
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Be silent always when you doubt your Sense.
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Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.
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Mansplaining is a sexist term designed to silence men via gender shaming.
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There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.
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I would love to do some collaborations for my album - the more the merrier! It's fun to experiment and get to tap into different genres and sounds through collaborations.
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The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.
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Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
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In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself...
