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.

Harvey Fierstein

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• Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Problem
  • Planning
  • Housing

• 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.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Time
  • Control
  • Model

• 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.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Support
  • Cold
  • Loving

• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Money
  • Commercial
  • Hobby

• 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.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Energy
  • Oil
  • Electricity

• 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.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Life
  • War
  • My Life

• 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!

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • True
  • Nature
  • Powerful

• In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Up

• Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

  

  Bill Pullman

• I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'

  

  Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde
  • Game

• America's neighbors are not drilling for fun or for sport; they've chosen to proceed to create new jobs, generate new revenues, and increase the energy supply and prosperity of their citizens.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • America
  • Fun
  • Energy

• There's something so beautiful in a woman who loves her body and is confident.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Beautiful

• I truly think a long career is to keep the audience guessing and not being able to be boxed, and for me, I'm not hell-bent on playing the lead in things as long its an interesting character with phenomenally talented people, and it's a script that I feel is genuinely innovative, creative, and potentially interesting for an audience.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • People
  • Long
  • Character

• I've always liked food, and I've always been interested in cooking and stuff like that.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • Food
  • Cooking

• A lot of times, we look at people who have disabilities as, 'Oh, we can't invite these people here or there.' And I hate that, because it's inappropriate. It's so weird to me when people say they don't have friends who have disabilities.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • Friends
  • Hate

• Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

  

  Shania Twain
  • Life
  • Wind

• Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Grace
  • Rebellion
  • Love Of God

• When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Good
  • Real
  • Want

• When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

  

  Jamie Luner
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Life
  • World