Harvey Fierstein Quotes
It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.
Quotes to Explore
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.
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I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.
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My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
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Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
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It is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.
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I was with my mum in the shops, a ladies boutique or something, and I was asked what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think you're supposed to say an ambulance man or a footballer or a soldier or something like that, and I told all my mother's friends that I wanted to be Minister for Health. She was mortified, needless to say.
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I believe that at every level of society the key to a happier world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities.
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The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.
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It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.
