Harvey Fierstein Quotes
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
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That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.
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Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.
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It's a great opportunity when one gets something new to grasp, and I feel we should just grab it.
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The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.
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It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.
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I've never hidden my faith, but there are only a couple of issues I would die for. There are a few others I would dig my heels in on, and I've told my caucus that what they see is what they get.
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I don't like to diet, so I work out with a trainer a few times a week. We do kickboxing and strengthening - it's hard! I also do yoga and love to walk everywhere. I live in Brooklyn, so walking is the best way to discover the city and the neighbourhoods.
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Journalists love to show their compassion.
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Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.
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Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.
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A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise.
