Harvey Fierstein Quotes

A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?

Harvey Fierstein

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• One of the signs of a bad coworker is a pattern of persistent undermining - intentionally hindering a colleague's success, reputation, or relationships.

  

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• The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.

  

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• It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.

  

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• 'Power' is an ominous and sinister word in all these tales, except as applied to the gods.

  

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• Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

  

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• I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.

  

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• A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup.

  

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• To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work better than our current set of rules and procedures, which break down when we try to push them back to the beginning.

  

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  • Work
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• Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can't believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop.

  

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• I feel like every time I go out, I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.

  

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• A great deal of American T.V. viewed on Hulu, which is superb - '30 Rock', for instance, is on very good form.

  

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• I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

  

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• Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

  

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• I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

  

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• For me, because I've been working out since I graduated college, I have to mix it up. But it's not just working out for health's sake; it's also a whole mindset for me. Yoga is really important for that.

  

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• When I was eight, I started what could be considered my first business, performing magic shows in Mexico City.

  

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• The last decade has been a little rough, so I'm hoping to start this one on the right foot.

  

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• When the Cleveland Cavaliers lost the 2015 NBA Finals to Golden State, LeBron James sat motionless in the locker room, staring straight ahead, still wearing his game jersey, for 45 minutes after the final buzzer. Here was a guy immensely wealthy, widely admired, at the peak of his powers - yet stricken, inconsolable.

  

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• People think I'm strong as hard as I look. But I've a very sensitive side and need to be loved by everyone.

  

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• Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

  

  Charles James
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• You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.

  

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• They were like an iceberg, it occurred to me, my father the seven-sights that was under the water and my mother the luminous portion riding the waves. But no, they were two icebergs: solitary phenomena, impressive, independent, known only to themselves. I felt their hidden seven-eighths inside me as a dark bulkiness whose outlines I was always trying to map.

  

  Elizabeth Hay
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• A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Magic
  • Child's kiss