Harvey Fierstein Quotes

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

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• With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Different
  • Team

• I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

  

  Edmund White
  • Good
  • American
  • Writer

• I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Opinion

• I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Afraid
  • Anything
  • On-screen

• Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Beauty

• Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Presentation

• Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Music
  • Different
  • Real

• Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for Senate candidates who were Tea Party candidates. We spent almost $20 million for House candidates who were Tea Party candidates.

  

  Karl Rove
  • House
  • Support
  • Party

• Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Muslims
  • Jihad
  • Obligatory

• The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Story

• Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Different
  • She
  • Song

• I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Like
  • Write

• Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Society

• Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Music
  • Trying

• Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Age
  • Lover
  • Comes

• We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

  

  John Bright
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Depression

• Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Success
  • Winning
  • Automobile

• I can't speak for other artists; every group has a different approach. For us, it will always be important to keep working hard, dancing better, writing better songs, touring, and setting an example.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Writing
  • Working
  • Artists

• To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Think
  • Know
  • Best

• When we first started touring after the release of 'On Through the Night', a lot of people kept calling us a 'punk' band. Obviously they never saw us. Evidently, a paper would assign a writer to cover the show, and the guy would unload his ticket for a few quid, go home and write the review anyway. They all called us 'punk,' because the name sounded that way.

  

  Rick Allen Def Leppard
  • Band
  • First
  • Writer

• Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • You
  • Easy

• I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Writer
  • Rewarding