Harvey Fierstein Quotes

To make positive change requires lasting commitment, lasting commitment requires measurable targets, measurable targets requires detailed action plans, detailed action plans requires a goal you desire, desire requires a positive attitude to change your life, and the option to change your life requires WORK. Byron Pulsifer, from Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

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• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Judge
  • Dreams

• I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • War
  • Want

• I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.

  

  Rae Carson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Good
  • You
  • Interview

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Problem
  • Potential
  • Israel

• I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Home
  • Road
  • Been

• We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Mind
  • End

• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • My Life

• The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Children
  • America

• It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Run

• I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Dream
  • Control
  • Scenes

• People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • People
  • Religious
  • Belief

• Of course, no one has enough time to see every shop that Mumbai has: That would take more lifetimes than even the gods could offer.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Time
  • Enough
  • See

• You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Think
  • Week

• I loved seeing my mom put her own twist on years-old family recipes and also create new dishes. This made me develop a passion for cooking at a young age and would eventually inspire me to prepare meals and host wonderful family dinners.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Age
  • Mom

• When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.

  

  B. B. King
  • Money
  • Worry
  • Loved

• Everyone loves Beyonce. If you don't love Beyonce, we can't talk.

  

  Zendaya
  • Love
  • You
  • Talk

• The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Knowledge

• It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • People
  • Help

• Scientists are trying to invent Viagra for women. It's been along for years... it's called cash.

  

  Alonzo Bodden
  • Women
  • Cash
  • Viagra

• But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Life
  • Important
  • Vision

• If someone asks me to play myself, I've got problems. There's more pain involved.

  

  Jamey Sheridan
  • Pain

• To make positive change requires lasting commitment, lasting commitment requires measurable targets, measurable targets requires detailed action plans, detailed action plans requires a goal you desire, desire requires a positive attitude to change your life, and the option to change your life requires WORK. Byron Pulsifer, from Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Work
  • Commitment
  • Targets