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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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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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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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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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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This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
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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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Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
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Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
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Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
