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.

Harvey Fierstein

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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.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Music
  • Story
  • Strange

• This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Money
  • Today
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Why
  • Government

• 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.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Job
  • Food
  • King

• I wanna live.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Live
  • Wanna

• We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Laugh
  • Crying

• I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Always
  • Inspired
  • Mentor

• Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • You
  • Ego
  • Impact

• I personally am not a shorts-wearing guy. That goes for any form of shorts, beside sports shorts, that I have to wear.

  

  James Wolk
  • Guy
  • Sports

• I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

• 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.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Up
  • Character
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• 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?'

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Why
  • Song
  • Question

• 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.

  

  Lisa Graff
  • She
  • Together
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Ellen Ochoa
  • Light

• That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well.

  

  Jenny Slate

• I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

  

  Brittany Murphy
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• If you want to appeal to everyone, you can't do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date - when you're in Australia, when you're in Dubai, when you're in Indonesia.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.

  

  Joey Santiago Pixies
  • Simple

• Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• I'm not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off the homophobes.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Gay
  • I Wish
  • Homophobes

• We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

  

  Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Society
  • Concepts
  • Using

• 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.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Gay
  • Heterosexual