Harvey Fierstein Quotes
To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
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I wanna live.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.
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Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.
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I personally am not a shorts-wearing guy. That goes for any form of shorts, beside sports shorts, that I have to wear.
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I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.
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When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful.
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Sometimes I do stuff where people say, 'Why did you do that?' And you know, it's very simple. I do it because I've never done it before.
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Even if I wrote a song about math or animals or whatever, there would still be the question, 'Why did you write about that? And what does it say about you?'
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My love of baking might have originated with my grandmother. She had a lemon tree growing in her backyard, and one of my favorite memories is of picking lemons together and then baking lemon bars.
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There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother.
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That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well.
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Stronger productivity growth would tend to raise the average level of interest rates and, therefore, would provide the Federal Reserve with greater scope to ease monetary policy in the event of a recession.
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It's very, very difficult to win golf tournaments.
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The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.
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It is high time Western establishments stopped blaming Russia for all their problems.
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Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
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I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.
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Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.
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To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.
