Harvey Fierstein Quotes
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.
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I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.
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I hope to be like Bill Gates, bro. With all the money in the world.
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What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
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I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.
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You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
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We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.
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Prison kills your spirit, straight up. It kills your spirit. There is no creativity, there's none of that.
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Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...
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If it ain't a mess, it'll do till the mess gets here.
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Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.
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There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'
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Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.
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Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
