Harvey Fierstein Quotes

A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.

Harvey Fierstein

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• I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Food
  • Fast Food
  • Taco

• More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Happiness
  • Wellbeing

• I do yoga; I'm pretty dedicated.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Pretty
  • Yoga
  • Dedicated

• I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Great
  • Real
  • Think

• Everybody always asks me, 'How much can you bench?' I'm like, 'I don't know. I don't lift weights.' Now that I'm in college, we lift weights every once in a while, but not maxing out. We do things with a weight vest on... That surprises people, too, how strong you can get by just basically lifting your body all the time.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • People
  • Time
  • Strong

• I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Google

• While 'Outlander' is a brilliant period show, Claire represents so many qualities of a 10th century modern-day woman: someone who is forging her own path, fighting for what she believes, and doing so with integrity.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • She
  • Fighting
  • Woman

• The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

  

  James Brown
  • Time
  • Live
  • Hardest

• I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Power
  • Inspiration

• I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Garden

• The live concerts are everything and I’m very grateful that most of my career, I’m a live artist, I’ve been doing this. So I’ve traveled quite a lot, played in - I never stopped playing.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Live
  • Career

• Love, is transcendental and transfiguring, and being transfigured through that mysterious force, one's mortal eyes.

  

  Xu Zhimo
  • Love
  • Force
  • Mortal Eyes

• Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Beautiful
  • Sleep
  • inspirational

• Small things make base men proud.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Proud
  • Things

• These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Experience
  • Illusions
  • Teachings

• No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!

  

  William Goldman
  • Want
  • Mean
  • Rhyme

• Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.

  

  Roger Taylor Duran Duran
  • Different
  • Together
  • Journey

• I've been around the bend in corporations.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Around
  • Corporations
  • Bend

• A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Musical